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Salwa and Selma Mikou

Salwa and Selma Mikou

Paris, FR

 

About 

Mikou Design Studio is a place of creation and experimentation in architecture and its inter-disciplinary cross-fertilisation. We design in a continuous workshop spirit with a multidisciplinary team of architects, engineers, graphic artists, scenographers and town planners from very different cultural backgrounds.
Every project is an opportunity for challenging and redefining the meaning of a brief, a function in an urban, social and human context, in order to invent new ways of living, places of sharing and gathering which are more sensitive and sensual stimulating an emotional response.
Distancing us from preconceptions of form and function gives us the freedom to create original solutions which enhance the fourth dimension of space - the dimension of sensitive spatial experience, the interaction between people and their environment.
Mikou Design Studio is currently involved in a large number of projects throughout France, Germany, Brazil and Morocco, with a focus on cultural and educational buildings, housing and offices.
MIKOU DESIGN STUDIO has been chosen from 400 european applicants to represent the avant-garde of the most creative architects of 2011.

Education 

École Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Paris-Belleville, Paris, FR, Architecture

Salwa Mikou
2009 Training at IHEDATE, Institute of Advanced development studies and regional planning in Europe
Further Educatoin in Sustainable Development,
Federal Polytechnic School of Lausanne
Master School of Architecture Paris La Villette
2000 DPLG diploma, School of Architecture
Paris-Belleville
2001 - 05 Project Manager at Ateliers Jean Nouvel Paris
2005 Associate architect at Mikou Design Studio
2011 Selected for Europe 40 under 40 of 2011
2012 MICQ consultant since January 2012

Selma Mikou
2001 Diploma in Urbanism, School of Architecture Paris la Villette
2000 DPLG diploma, School of Architecture
Paris-Belleville
2003 - 2005 Project Manager at Renzo Piano
2005 Associate architect at Mikou Design Studio
2011 Selected for Europe 40 under 40 of 2011

Sep 1996 - May 2000
 

Awards 

2010
 

Areas of Specialization