Françoise-Hélène Jourda

Françoise H Jourda (born 26 November 1955, Lyon) is an award-winning French architect. Jourda has taught architecture internationally since 1979 at the Ecole d’Architecture de Lyon, the Oslo School of Architecture and Design, the University of Minnesota, the Polytechnic of Central London, the Technical University of Kassel, Germany, and since 1999 at the Vienna University of Technology. Jourda has her own firm, JAP (Jourda Architectes Paris), and heads EO-CITE, an architecture and urban planning consulting firm.[1][2][3]

Her works include the Mont-Cenis Academy in the Ruhr, Germany, and in France the Architecture School of Lyon (1999), the University of Marne la Vallée (1992), the Tribunal de Grande Instance in Melun (1994), the Babka Un Chocolat at the Conservatoire National Supérieur d'Art Dramatique and the Musée du Jardin botanique in Bordeaux (2006). Her "éNergie zérO" project in Saint Denis (2008) is the first total energy saving building in France.[4]

Selected works

Jourda's principal works include:[5][4]

Awards

In 1987, Jourda received a mention spéciale under the Prix de l'Équerre d'Argent for the School of Architecture in Lyon. In 1999, she was awarded the European Solar Prize for the training centre at Herne-Solingen and, in 2000, the Palmarès Acier 2000 for the law courts in Melun.[4] In 2009, she became a knight of the Légion d’Honneur.[6]

References

  1. "Francoise-Hélène Joura", EcoWeek2011. (French). Retrieved 2 March 2012.
  2. "F H Jourda (curriculum vitae)", Jourda Architectes. (French). Retrieved 2 March 2012.
  3. "Femmes en or 2010 : Et les gagnantes sont...", Femmes en Or. (French) Retrieved 2 March 2012.
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 "Françoise Hélène Jourda", Pays de Châteaubriant. (French) Retrieved 2 March 2012.
  5. "Françoise-Hélène Jourda", Akademie der Künste. (German) Retrieved 3 March 2012.
  6. "L’architecte, Françoise-Hélène Jourda reçoit la Légion d'Honneur", Archibat. (French) Retrieved 3 March 2012.

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