Mathieu Delorme von Atelier Georges "..une oeuvre collective.."

ateliergeorges - founded by urban architects Yvan Okotnikoff and Aurélien Delchet and landscape engineers Thibault Barbier and Mathieu Delorme - is a multidisciplinary platform of permanent exchanges around the production of cities and regions. It combines profiles that are both different and engaged, inventing and experimenting with new ways of observing and conceiving urban projects, with the fertility of exchanges. In each situation, the collective adapts to the context and the given subject and mobilizes local re-appropriation, know-how and expertise.
Yvan Okotnikoff and Aurélien Delchet are graduates of the ENSA in Clermont-Ferrand. They collaborated for 5 years at the Obras Paris agency on urban projects and territorial strategies. Thibault Barbier and Mathieu Delorme studied at the National School of Nature and Landscape in Blois. As a graduate of the DSA of the ENSAVT in Marne-la-Vallée, Thibault Barbier joined the agency Obras Paris before coordinating locally the second stage of the project of the island of Nantes in the team uapS + Smets. Mathieu Delorme, holder of the Masters Degree in Urban Management at ESSEC, has developed the Parisian agency of INTERLAND in prospective and territorial strategy.
„Choosing a name is a demanding exercise. How to evoke a posture, to incarnate a state of mind without betraying or reducing our intention? How can we avoid over-reporting and talk to all?“ We chose a name that each of us can represent in turn [...]. A simple name [...], so that the first exchange is the evocation of a common history or a forgotten memory. A name with evocative roots, which incarnates our common mindset rather than the sum of our individualities: What interests us is not who George is but what he does. Georges [...] means „the one who works the earth“ and thus embodies the [...] plowman: the cultivation of the soil by Man. It is a starting point: a competent approach to the natural dynamics with which man has to negotiate with ingenuity. The City-Nature does not count among our demands, it is adefault value. Our commitment focuses more on the methods and tools of its implementation.“ 
ateliergeorges have been awarded the Palmarès des Jeunes Urbanistes 2014 by the Ministère du Logement, de l‘Égalité des territoires et de la ruralité and won the  Europan 11 competition in Savenay, the Europan 12 competition in Paris-Saclay and the the Europan 13 competition in Montreuil.