Founder, studioMilou
Jean-François Milou is a multiple award-winning architect and founder of studioMilou architecture, studioMilou Singapore and studioMilou Vietnam. A graduate of the prestigious Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-arts of Paris, he is also a member of the French Order of Architects, the Singapore Board of Architects, the Royal British Institute of Architects and the Australian institute of Architects. Known particularly for his work on the transformation of historic buildings in innovative and elegant ways, his major recent projects include the acclaimed National Gallery Singapore, winner of Singapore’s prestigious President’s Design Award in 2005, and the iconic Carreau du Temple in central Paris. Inspired by a deep interest in the works of antiquity and heritage in a wide sense, the architect infuses the studio’s designs with an elegant balance of the contemporary and the timeless, in ways respectful to local contexts and surrounding landscapes; social, urban and natural. Awarded the Chevalier of the Order of Merit for services to French architecture on the international level, he has also conducted various missions as an expert advising the UNESCO World Heritage Committee and the French Government. Now based in Singapore, his practice is expanding in Asia, to include a wider range of public and high-end residential projects, with an emphasis on sustainability and the exactingly crafted approach to all aspects of design which marks the work of studioMilou.
