[5] After graduating, he spent five years in Niger as an architect and town planner.

[4] Lacaton & Vassel carried out many international projects in the area of housing.

They accomplish the high-profile renovation of the Palais de Tokyo in Paris.

[7] In 2019 the Grand Parc Bordeaux (with Frédéric Druot and Christophe Hutin) was selected winner of the European Union's 2019 Mies van der Rohe Award, for the best contemporary architecture in Europe.

[8] The French architects, who are based in the Paris suburb of Montreuil, believe that every structure can be repurposed, reinvented, reinvigorated.