Nicholas Préaud – France
Architect & product designer
Founder of Nicholas Préaud Studio
Through built architectural projects, interior and furniture design, physical installations, research and development in construction, as well as digital art, Nicholas Préaud’s work converges into a vast and unclassifiable contemporary discipline. This discipline seeks, through research and development, to challenge our lifestyles, our ways of interacting with our environment, and with each other. It questions the traditional deployment of architectural creative processes. Now based in Stockholm, Nicholas Préaud explores ways to connect the imagination to the reality of built architecture.
Nicholas Préaud studied architecture in Paris and then worked in several architecture firms such as DGT Architects, Lina Ghotmeh Architecture, Nicolas Laisné Architectes, and more recently Sou Fujimoto Architects in Paris. His career is purely architectural and connects several practices such as architecture, furniture or product design on a smaller scale, and research and development in construction, to more abstract and digital design works intended to exist only digitally. Some projects, such as Casa Atibaia, serve as a means to bridge the gap between the digital and the physical world. Initially conceived as a digital architectural project, Nicholas Préaud is now working to bring it to fruition in the coming years.