The Agency

Hamonic+Masson & Associés is Gaëlle Hamonic, Jean-Christophe Masson and, since 2014, Marie-Agnès de Bailliencourt. The practice was founded in 1997, was nominated for the Mies van der Rohe prize in 2001, and in 2002 was awarded the Nouveaux Albums de la Jeune Architecture (NAJA) by the French Minister of Culture and Communication.

The firm became known for their Maison Métal in Paris’ Parc de la Villette. It was an event that placed Hamonic+Masson at the crossroads of art and architecture, a flexible place that creates a place of adventure. We have since staged events such as co-curating the French Pavilion at the 2008 Venice Biennial, and opened a series of exhibitions at venues such as the Cité de l’architecture & du patrimoine. Furthermore, Hamonic+Masson & Associés regularly participate in numerous international conferences and lectures, and our work has been the subject of many publications and has featured in numerous exhibitions in France and internationally.

In 2012, the office received the “prix spécial AMO Saint-Gobain” for the construction of 62 social housing units on rue Villiot in Paris’ 12th arrondissement.

• 1997: Creation of the Hamonic + Masson firm
• 1999: Winners of the Grand Prix Rénov “Vivre c’est habiter” competition
• 2001/2002: Winners of the Nouveaux Albums des Jeunes Architectes competition
• 2003: Nominated for the Mies van der Rohe Award
• 2008: Founding members of the “French Touch” association
• 2012: Prix AMO Spécial Saint-Gobain for the Villiot Rapée project (Paris Habitat)
• 2013: Gaëlle HAMONIC selected as one of the world’s leading women architects
• 2015: Hamonic+Masson & Associés delivers the first 50-metre residential building in Paris since the 1970s

The practice intervenes in all sectors including housing, public facilities, retail, offices, infrastructure and urban design in France and internationally. For several years now, Hamonic+Masson & Associés has been one of the players in the current debate on high-rise residential buildings in France – as with the design of the Home building, ZAC Masséna Bruneseau, in Paris 13 – and is continuing its reflections on the scale of Greater Paris, initiated with its proposal for the Avenue Foch, which became one of the major projects of the City of Paris during Anne Hidalgo’s 2014 municipal campaign. 

The agency is also questioning our relationship with history and our heritage, with the Alta project in Le Havre, overlooking the Bassin du Roy and the Bassin du Commerce, in the heart of Auguste Perret’s rebuilt centre and close to Niemeyer’s Volcano.

In 2018, the agency won the international Imagine Angers consultation, with its Métamorphose project: a mixed-use programme of offices, co-living, block rooms, fitness, spa, public passageway and restaurant.

It has also won other «large-scale» consultations such as Inventons la Métropole du Grand Paris II in 2019, with the mixed-use High Garden program for the Arsenal eco-district in Rueil Malmaison.

Today, Hamonic+Masson & Associés is invited to take part in various international consultations and conferences to share its expertise on living well at height and new ways of living in changing cities.

Associates
Gaëlle Hamonic
Jean-Christophe Masson
Marie-Agnès de Bailliencourt

Management and Development Assistant
Virginie Cenciai

Project managers
Arnaud Grenié, Cesar Silva, Toufic Dagher, Camille Bobenrieth, Valentin Damville

Project assistants
Clément Bonnérat, François Proust, Ghiles Belkessam, Yves Micault, Rita Ibnlkhayat, Ramazan Aylar, Chengxin Li, Pierre Adam, Giovanni Viganò, Claudio Baeza Maureira, Laury Quagliotto

Communication and development
Guillemette Fayolle

Working with us since 2004…
Cristian Serra, Lisa Cépisul, Zhen Ren, Guillaume Galamand, Bastien Capon, Pauline Albizzati, Clément Arnoux, Paul Ben Chemhoun, Julie Bourgeois, Yanis Bousbaine, Cédric Bregot, Sabine Bricard, Bertrand Cargill, Anne-Laure Chantepie, Chiara Cappi, Marta Colon, Paula Gimeno Martínez, Linda Cura-Gounissi, Anne-Claire de Liocourt, Florence Daem, Benjamin Exbrayat, Sandra Ferminan, Karine Floret, Bertrand Folmar, Olivier Garcé, Jennifer Gauthier, Julien Gouiric, Arnaud Grenié, Gladys Griffault, Amaury Haumont, Tina Hausdörfer, Kristina Ioveva, Timothée Kazmierczak, Clarisse Krause, Camille Laufer, Marco Lavit, Matteo Malatesta, Nicola Mameli, Hélène-Sophie Martin, Lenny Martinez, Isotta Meoni, Paul Morini, Mélanie Onillon, Pauline Plégat, Sandie Poriel, Martin Portier, Aurélie Preud’Homme, Renata Raimondi, Hugues Rebay, Thomas Richou, Gaëtan Riou, Artémy Sanson, Jorge Santa Cruz, Violette Sirot, Boriana Tchonkova, Katharina Thielmann, Alick Tsay, Enrique Ucha, Florence Vesval, Hélène-Sophie Vlachos, Christian Weller, Charles Yervant, Carlotta Zapata.