Wilmotte & Associates Architects

Wilmotte & Associés is a multi-disciplinary architecture firm.The firm takes on an impressive range and scale of projects from large plants, stadiums, high-rise buildings, hospitals, hotels, theatres, museums, congress centres, and shoppingmalls to private residences.

Some of the greatest museums have enlisted the services of Jean-Michel Wilmotte and his team, including the Louvre (Paris), the Chiado Museum (Lisbon), the Museum of Islamic Art in Qatar (Doha), the Museum d’Orsay (Paris), and the Rijksmuseum (Amsterdam).

Jean-Michel Wilmotte’s architecture is characterised by great care given to a building’s integration within the site it occupies, to clean lines, quality of materials, and attention to detail.

Wilmotte & Associés exerts true expertise in developing museums and exhibition scenography. Whether dealing with an old building or a new build, it is a question of cultivating deep connections between three distinct axes: art, space, and the visitor. The result of this work is ultimately a culmination in a real sensation of ease and comfort for the visitor.

Following an interview with Jean-Michel Wilmotte and an essay on museography, this book will present in detail the major projects designed by the architecture firm for museums, artists’ studios and galleries.

Taco Dibbits, art historian, director of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

Françoise Madrus – curator, in charge of the Centre d’étude et de recherche Dominique Vivant-Denon, Paris.