Jean Renaudie joined the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts in 1945, studying in the studios of Auguste Perret then Marcel Lods.
Gaining his architect's licence in 1958, he founded l'Atelier de Montrouge with Pierre Riboulet, Gérard Thurnauer and Jean-Louis Véret (whom he met in 1956).
Renaudie would have liked to put the town on the cliff overlooking the flat, wet site intended at the beginning.
He won the grand prix national de l'architecture from the French Minister of Culture for the sum of his works.
He never wished to systematise architecture, creating a wide variety and diversity of apartments in his housing projects.