Jury

Olivier Leclercq
Architect, urbanist
Vice President of the House of Architecture Ile de France.
I studied architecture at UCL in Tournai (Belgium), at TU Karlsruhe in Germany, and urban planning at ENSA Lille. In parallel, I learned photography at the House of Culture Tournai. In 1997, I worked in London and Warsaw for the Ministry of Economy and Finance.
I worked for two years in Abidjan as an architect, partly for humanitarian projects.
I live and work in the Paris region, associated with Cyrille Hanappe to form AIR architecture office in 2001. We realize mixed urban projects, innovative housing, public buildings and integrate co-design with inhabitants in all our projects.
Since 2016, I am also Secretary General of Actes & Cités, an association for slum clearance and refugee reception.
In parallel, I continue a research at Ecole d’Architecture de La Villette about the valorization of the land by the users expertise in operations of urban prefigurations.

He is the founder of "Deconstruction Architects", an architectural firm based on Bangladesh. He is also the founder of Arch-Bangla (Countries first architectural web portal). He studied Landscape and Gardening from New Skills Academy, USA.
He designed several Large scale housing projects in Bangladesh. His specialization is on high-rise condominium complexes and Landscape. Interior Design also covers his specialization. Two renowned Childern Theme parks also designed by him. 
Several articles related to architectural practices and heritage of Bangladesh of him published in journals & newspaper of Bangladesh.
He believes "ARCHITECTURE IS THE THOUGHTFUL MAKING OF SPACE"

My architectural focus is to create 3d images to let the client feel there futur design on playing on there psychology...

The relation between the Architecture and the context.

The relations between land and sea (port-cities and port-regions).

Historical city and its regeneration.

improve human life. Create timeless, free, joyous spaces for all activities in life