Agency
Agency

Founded in 2000, Vergély Architectes is an agency working in urban, rural and heritage settings by cultivating diversity of scale. Our developments are always anchored in their sites. The existing, whether that be landscape, construction, usage, or atmosphere, is the raw material used for all the agency’s projects. A continuity or coexistence between past and present can be expressed by drawing on memory and the senses...

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Founded in 2000, Vergély Architectes is an agency working in urban, rural and heritage settings by cultivating diversity of scale. Our developments are always anchored in their sites. The existing, whether that be landscape, construction, usage, or atmosphere, is the raw material used for all the agency’s projects. A continuity or coexistence between past and present can be expressed by drawing on memory and the senses.

Economy of means is another constant in the agency’s approach. Prioritising local resources, choosing durable materials, and using them in the right way are the fundamentals of environmental, economic, and social sustainability. To be sustainable, architecture must also anticipate conversions in order to respond to changing forms of occupancy. The spaces designed by Vergély Architectes adhere to this logic by implementing strong principles: simplicity of form, rigorous structural systems, attention to detail, and careful implementation.

Clément Vergély studied under Professor Luigi Snozzi at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. He won the French Ministry for Culture’s prize for young architects, the Nouveaux albums des jeunes architects, in 2004, and was awarded the prestigious French prize for architecture, l’Équerre d’Argent, in 2010. He has been a member of the French Academy for Architecture, l’Académie d’Architecture, since 2017. 

The agency regularly collaborates with Charlotte Vergély of CH.V studio on cultural and heritage projects.

Key dates
2023
Al’Ula

Winning proposal for the Dadan and Jabal Ikmah international interpretation centres in Al’Ula

2021
Nominated for the l’Équerre d’Argent

Project: a rammed-earth office building in Lyon Confluence

2017
Académie d'architecture

Member of the Académie d’Architecture (French Academy of Architecture), Paris

2014
Équerre d'Argent

Prize Category: Culture, Youth and Sport.
Project: Amicale Laïque (association for the support of a school) in Saint-Étienne

2012
Lausanne

Creation of the Joud et Vergély Architectes, architects agency in Lausanne

2010
Nominated for the l’Équerre d’Argent

Project: 39 housing units and 4 workshops in Lyon Confluence

2004
Venice Biennale

French Pavilion. Exhibition of the agency’s projects.

2003
NAJA

Winner of the Nouveaux Albums des Jeunes Architectes prize for young architects, awarded by the French Ministry for Culture and Communication

2000
Lyon

Creation of the Clément Vergély Architectes agency in Lyon

1996
Paris

Residency at the Cité Internationale Arts, Paris

1994
EPFL

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Luigi Snozzi’s studio

Our team
Clément Vergély

Architect DPLG, Managing Director

Charlotte Vergély

Heritage architect

Mary Bravard

Architect DE-HMONP

Stefan Jeske

Architect DPLG

Nicolas Guieu

Architect DE - Engineer at the Centrale school in Lyon

Édouard Charvet

Architect DPLG

Raphaël Fiorese

Architect DE

Maria Siffert Casalotti

Architect DESA

Emma Vahl

Architect DE

Rémi Olibo

Architect DE

Damien Girard

Architect DE-HMONP

Etienne Jallas

Architect DE

Zoé Durand

Executive assistant

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