CEO, AREP
Since December 2018, Raphaël Ménard has been president of AREP, an interdisciplinary and international architecture agency, a subsidiary of SNCF Gares & Connexions.
An engineer and architect by training, he began his career at RFR, contributing in particular to the Simone de Beauvoir footbridge in Paris and the glass roof at Strasbourg station. In 2003, he founded Elioth, a project management team that brings together engineers, architects, designers and simulation experts around one project: low-carbon innovation. In 2011, he became head of foresight for the Egis group, which Elioth has joined.
In 2014, he created 169-architecture: this laboratory of experimental architectures works to design solutions that increase the capacity of urban and peri-urban territories to become producers of renewable energy.
Raphaël Ménard has theorised his reflections in numerous scientific publications; notably his thesis Energy, Matter, Architecture, defended in 2018. He has also taught since 2013 at the École d’Architecture de la Ville et des Territoires de Marne-la-Vallée, as well as at the EPFL (in 2015 and 2016).
The impetus he is giving to AREP today is to capitalise on an intelligence of the common good acquired over more than twenty years to design cities and territories that are sustainable, accessible to all and pleasant to live in.
