Olivier Leclercq

advisor

https://uclouvain.be/fr/facultes/loci

French

Olivier LeclercqArchitect, urbanist Vice President of the House of Architecture Ile de France.I studied architecture at UCL in Tournai (Belgium), at TU Karlsruhe in Germany, and urban planning at ENSA Lille. In parallel, I learned photography at the House of Culture Tournai. In 1997, I worked in London and Warsaw for the Ministry of Economy and Finance.I worked for two years in Abidjan as an architect, partly for humanitarian projects.I live and work in the Paris region, associated with Cyrille Hanappe to form AIR architecture office in 2001. We realize mixed urban projects, innovative housing, public buildings and integrate co-design with inhabitants in all our projects.Since 2016, I am also Secretary General of Actes & Cités, an association for slum clearance and refugee reception.In parallel, I continue a research at Ecole d’Architecture de La Villette about the valorization of the land by the users expertise in operations of urban prefigurations.