Born in 1948 in Soissons and a graduate of the Camondo school, Jean-Michel Wilmotte is an architect, urban planner and designer, and has been a member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts since 2015. He founded the Wilmotte & Associés architecture firm in 1975.

Jean-Michel Wilmotte is interested in all subjects, with an equal curiosity: from the most unlikely to the most obvious, from the most high-end to the most accessible, from the smallest to the most imposing. He likes to be where he is not expected. Changes of scale and programme allow him to remain on the lookout, to question and reinvent himself each time, always with the same high standards of quality and the same attention to detail.