Philippe Lê Architecture

Currently working as Director of technical and architectural affairs at the Cartier Foundation for Contemporary Art, he is in charge of managing all the technical aspects of the development of the Foundation.

Philippe Lê has previously been Deputy to the Director of Architectural and Technical Affairs on the Louvre Abu Dhabi project with the Agence France-Muséums from 2007 to 2018.

A certified architect (DPLG), Philippe Lê has also completed a semester on the Bachelor of Architecture program at the University of Houston, he received training in city planning at the ETH Zurich and in vernacular Asian architecture at the University of Hong Kong. He began his career working on the renovation project of the Centre Pompidou before working for the Aéroports de Paris and other Paris-based architecture agencies.

He returned to the museum sector when he became responsible for the internal architectural development at the Centre Pompidou and then at the Museum national d’histoire naturelle, for which he carried out the Hôtel de Magny site museum in the Jardin des Plantes in Paris.

In 2011, he moved to Hanoi (Vietnam) where he worked on private real estate development projects and public buildings like the Hanoi art center. During his years in Asia, he also developed a research program on spontaneous city planning in Hanoi as well as his interest in future urban development.