Pierre d’Avoine

Pierre d’Avoine - biography Pierre d’Avoine runs an architects office based in London and practices internationally with work in Japan, India, Italy, Ghana, the West Indies and in Tehran where he designed the Climate House, an experimental project for The Iranian Fuel Conservation Organisation, in association with Golzari (NG) Architects. The work of the practice includes housing, offices, mixed-use developments, urban design, interior design and public art projects, and has been widely published and exhibited. In 1999 the practice won the Concept House competition with Slim House, a prototype of which was built at the Ideal Home Show that year.

Pierre was born in Bombay, moved to London when he was 11 and studied architecture at the Birmingham School of Architecture in the 1970s. He set up Pierre d’Avoine Architects in London in 1979.

Pierre is a visiting professor at the Welsh School of Architecture, Cardiff, and has taught at the Architectural Association, the Bartlett (UCL), the University of Bath, the Royal College of Art, Oxford Brookes University, Buckingham Chilterns University College and Chelsea School of Art. He has also lectured and broadcast extensively in the UK and abroad.

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