XTU Architects

XTU is a leading architecture studio.

X stands for the unknown mathematical variable and TU for the suffix in situ - references to the geography and the landscape of work done by Anouk Legendre and Nicolas Desmazières, the architects who founded XTU in 2000.

Among its many projects, XTU designed the Jeongok Prehistory Museum in South Korea and has worked on the "Maison des Civilisations" in La Reunion (MCUR), the first positive energy museum in the Indian Ocean.

XTU delivered the France pavilion at the Expo Milano 2015 and wins Architecture and Landscape Gold Medal, in the "Pavilions above 2000 m²" section, from the Bureau International des Expositions.

XTU is currently building the spectacular Wine Museum in Bordeaux will be open in june of 2016.

Standing up for the beliefs that architecture should predict the future and that the biotechnological transition will be the third industrial revolution, the XTU architects are truly invested in urban agriculture and experimental research, which lies between the life sciences, ecology, architecture and urban development. Moreover, the office XTU is delivering the world first integrated biofacade on a building.

XTU wins the Réinventer.Paris competition for Paris Rive Gauche (M5A2) with the 'In Vivo' project, a manifesto for the innovative urban integration of nature and living matter with three buildings : the Tree House, the Plant House and the AlgoHouse (integrating a microalgae-producing biofacade for medical research)