Bernard Reichen and Philippe Robert is Architecte S and town planners whose agency was specialized a long time in the restoration or the rehabilitation of buildings or patrimonial units, in particular resulting from the industrial Patrimoine. They thus in particular carried out the rehabilitation of the market Tony Garnier of Lyon, the Docks Vauban of the Havre, the Grande Halle of the Villette, the Pavillon of the Arsenal or the Siège of the Red Cross in Paris and the chocolate factory Menier with Noisiel. Outwards, they carried out projects abroad.

Their agency aims to today diversify their sphere of activity. It thus obtained in 2003 the market of the restoration of the site of the Aubette of Strasbourg and the urban and architectural reorganization of the site of the Young Porte of Mulhouse.

Bernard Reichen obtained in 2005 the Grand Prix of town planning. The jury wished to greet “an attitude innovating, strategic, at the same time realistic and inventive, in all the forms of town planning on various territorial scales with the service of a dynamic and modern vision of the durable European city. ” Reichen indeed developed the concept of “territorial town planning”, placed at a scale vaster than the usual projects of town planning. It thus took into account the need for preserving the rural areas in its project concerning with the Schéma of territorial coherence (SCOT) of Montpellier in 2005.

External bonds

• Reichen and Robert on Archiguide.

• Summary on Reichen (ideas and achievements), carried out within the framework of the Grand Prix of town planning.