Statement

Architects are not mere service providers to clients, but they dream up the meaningful articulation of inhabitable spaces and environments-a mission enmeshed with critical social and political responsibilities.

Overview

JEAN PETIT ARCHITECTES, CONCOURS D'UN CENTRE COMMERCIAL A LUX-KIRCHBERG.

History

1972 JEAN PETIT ARCHITECTE founded

1985 renamed JEAN PETIT ARCHITECTES

2007 transformed into a public limited company JEAN PETIT ARCHITECTES S.A.

Inaugurated in 1972, our Luxembourg-based practice is running up to its half-century-long existence, and its work reflects, and bears witness to a time of architectural history that has been exceedingly rich and varied. Without straying too far from a deep allegiance to the principles inaugurated by a particular strand of international modernism out of Le Corbusier, and received through the formalist interpretations of Louis Kahn, Bernhard Hoesli, and Jim Stirling, among others, our work has also exhibited the continued dialogue with the zeitgeist. As such, the early projects tend to capitalize on the organizational possibilities of the diagonal in "complex and contradictory" conjunction with curvilinear spatial figures; in the late-seventies and eighties, one senses a return to the principles of rational architecture with attributes of archetypal form; in the nineties, we probed the luxuries of minimalist perfection occasionally disrupted with the spectacle of geometrical clashes; and since the turn of the century, we have invested into building on the paradigmatic shifts of digital culture in all aspects of our practice-from early conceptual project modeling to building information modeling (BIM).

JPA has been fortunate to be entrusted with large-scale projects that extend the poetry of the small object-building to the urban scale, and, in 2012, have consolidated the office into the structure of an incorporated firm that is able to fully capitalize on, and transmit the expertise we acquired over the decades.

Whereas the corporate world as well as the public administrations see the act of building increasingly as the mere product of a pragmatic and efficient "construction industry," we continue to insist on the cultural dimension of the discipline of architecture in our activity as thinkers and doers. Architects are not mere service providers to clients, but they dream up the meaningful articulation of inhabitable spaces and environments-a mission enmeshed with critical social and political responsibilities. Our professional activity is accompanied by our research and idea-centered mirror practice "EPISTEME," whose output is geared towards lecturing, publishing, and the media.

TAX ID# TVA / VAT

IBLC LU25 25 68 75

TVA 2012 22 01 717

Registre du Commerce

RCSL B166 921

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATION

OAI / Ordre des Architectes et Ingénieurs-Conseils du Grand-Duché de Luxembourg

AP / 10757 (architecture)

UP / 10762 (urbanisme / amenagement)

EST

Autorisation d’exercer l’activité d’architecte indépendant datée 11.01.1972, N° 15315 (Ministère de l’Economie)

Autorisation d’exercer l’activité d’architecte en qualité de profession libérale N° 10024288/0 (Ministère de l’Economie)

Autorisation d’exercer l’activité d’architecte indépendant datée 11.09.2009, N° 164560 (Ministère de l’Economie)

Autorisation d’établissement pour activité d’architecte indépendant datée 15.12.2017, N° 10024288/2 (Ministère de l’Economie)

Autorisation d’établissement pour activité d’urbaniste et d’aménageur datée 15.12.2017, N° 10024288/3 (Ministère de l’Economie)

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