Company type | Private |
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Industry | Architecture |
Founded | 1980 |
Founder | Denis Valode Jean Pistre |
Headquarters | 115 rue du Bac, , |
Area served | Worldwide |
Revenue | 36 million euros (2015) [1] |
Website | v-p.com |
Valode & Pistre is a French architecture firm based in the 7th arrondissement of Paris, with branches in Moscow and Beijing. [2]
The firm was founded in 1980 by Denis Valode and Jean Pistre who met at the Beaux-Arts de Paris where the former was a student and the latter a teacher. [3] [4] The firm's first major project was the CAPC musée d'art contemporain de Bordeaux (1983). [1]
By 2021, the firm had worked on more than two hundred projects in thirty-five countries. [4]
Valode & Pistre works on projects both in France and across the globe in Europe, Russia, the Middle East, Asia, North and Sub-Saharan Africa, and Central America.
Valode & Pistre’s projects are of very diverse scales, from developing new cities to designing furniture.
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