Manuelle Gautrand is born in 1961 and qualified as an architect in 1985. She set up her office in 1991, in Paris, where she lives and works. She has handled all kinds of projects, whether built or in study phase, ranging from offices to cultural buildings, business premises and leisure facilities. Her clients are public contracting authorities as well as private firms, in France and in foreign countries The 'C42' Citroën flagship showroom building, at the Champs-Elysée Avenue in Paris, has contributed to make a name for herself with the large public and the International. Some of her projects have earned distinctions too, among the prestigious 'Contractworld' award, 'World Architecture' award and 'nterior Design Competition' award. She has been a teacher at the 'Ecole Spéciale d'Architecture' in Paris, at the Paris-Val-de-Seine Architectural School, the 'Technische Universität' in Vienna. She has lectured in various foreign coutries and has sat on a great many juries for competitions and prizes.

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Manuelle Gautrand Architecture is a Parisian based architecture firm founded in 1991. Manuelle Gautrand thinks up, develops and implements an architecture which invents 'ways of living and opening up in a dimension that is tactile, sensitive and near to people in their concerns and expectations, and also a 'cut loose' and poetic architecture. Manuelle Gautrand does currently the studies for the Ava Tower at la Defense in Paris. Several buildings will be delivered during the year 2010: an office building in Saint-Etienne, the Gaîté Lyrique in the city center of Paris, converting a theatre to contemporary music and digital arts centre, and the Lille Modern Art Museum in Villeneuve-d'Ascq. She is often associated with projects in foreign countries, for example the new Munch Museum design contest in Oslo, the ongoing studies for a showroom and leisure centre at Cairo, and the delivery of a shopping mall in Bangkok.