Antoine Grumbach, Architect and Urban Designer was born in 1942 and graduated from the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris in 1967. He received the “Grand Prix National d’Urbanisme et d’Art Urbain” in 1992. He is both a theorist and a practitioner of the possible links between architectural and urban forms and transport.He has been a visiting professor at the University of Toronto, Princeton and Harvard His extensive body of built and theoretical work was the subject of an exhibition at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris in 1992.
Grumbach’s architectural projects include public spaces, large public buildings, universities, hotels, offices, social housing and a variety of large urban, landscape and infrastructure projects.
His committment to urban issues draws him to large scale planning and his concern for public transportation lead him to plan and design several projects of intermodality including Le Tramway of Paris and the Mobility Hub station (Bibliothèque F. Mitterrand) for the Paris Metro, line 14.
In January 2009 he was chosen by the President of the République to be one of ten architects in charge of the project for the «Grand Paris». His proposition to consider “Paris Rouen Le Havre” along the River Seine (200 km) as the mega-polis of the XXIst century is strongly supported by the government and is currently in development.
In January 2012 Grumbach was selected with Jean-Michel Wilmotte to be one of ten teams in competition for the regional expansion of Moscow known as the”Geat Moscow”. In July 2012, the Grumbach team was selected (first prize) for the development of the agglomeration and the extension of the city.Their contribution among others insisted in the relations between transport and urbanization,the importance of the Moskova and the DNA of Moscow:
A city in the forest.
His philosophy can be summarized as a concern for the “endless incompletion of the city”.