Valode & Pistre is now one of France's leading architecture and urban planning firms. Founded in 1980 by Denis Valode and Jean Pistre, it is now run by nine partners. It has nearly 150 architects of twenty different nationalities and has completed 200 projects around the world.

Based in Paris with a subsidiary in Beijing, Valode & Pistre develops projects in France and internationally: Europe, Asia, the Middle East, North Africa, and sub-Saharan Africa.

Valode & Pistre's practice covers a wide range of scales, from the design of master plans for new towns to the design of furniture. It also covers a wide variety of programs, with particular expertise in the field of large-scale facilities, towers, tertiary campuses, and new mixed-use residential neighborhoods.

In all areas of intervention, architects strive to transfer contributions and innovations from one field to another, and above all to offer fresh and original insights that go beyond the project itself. To do this, the agency draws on a wide range of questions, including sociological, scientific, ecological, ethical, aesthetic, and cultural issues. This desire to be "at the crossroads of everything" fuels intellectual gymnastics, the very embodiment of the creative process.

"What interests us is creating buildings
that could not have been built anywhere else.
The architectural gesture then has meaning, roots."

Its international experience provides an opportunity to master the most modern design tools and the highest levels of certification related to sustainable development. Beyond standards, the agency conducts R&D work on certain projects. Valode & Pistre has already been approved as a company conducting research and development work by the French Ministry of Higher Education and Research.