Promoting the grafting of heritage and modernity
Inventing a contemporary language for our architectural heritage
Updating history, giving roots to modernity... Dreaming up the architecture of tomorrow whilst conserving the diversity of our cultural heritage... Making our history come alive, associating cutting-edge materials and technology to constructions of the past... Promoting the transmission of skills and knowledge, and assisting the emergence of new generations of artists...
... so many dreams today calling for the bringing together of experiences and energies into a shared endeavour and a common ambition for tomorrow.
The creation of the Wilmotte Foundation is the natural extension of the work and ambition of some five hundred architects, interior designers and city planners that have sought over the years at the Wilmotte practice to enrich our heritage by proposing subtle rearticulation or innovative creations to constructions of the past.
In thirty years, they have constructed a network of intellectual and aesthetic affinities all over the world that will constitute the hallmark and character of the Wilmotte Foundation.
Wishing today to share these experiences, the Wilmotte Foundation will seek to promote and develop its idea of architectural grafting as an elegant marriage of heritage and contemporary creation, and hopes to act as a bridge between apprenticeship and reflection, teaching and action.
The Foundation aims to help detect and support young talents, to encourage the diffusion of our European architectural culture and to promote comprehension and build passages between architecture, heritage and contemporary creation.
