Didier Repellin

A graduate of the Lyon School of Architecture and a member of ICOMOS and the Smithsonian Institution, Didier is Inspecteur Général des Monuments Historiques and Architecte en chef des Monuments Historiques. Co-creator and manager of the RL&A. Architects agency, he sees heritage as a tool for linking cultures and generations. He has worked on the restoration of numerous monuments listed as World Heritage Sites in France (Vaucluse, Rhône), Italy (Rome), Cambodia, Malaysia and Tunisia, and has carried out expert appraisal and consultancy missions in Singapore, the Caribbean (Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent, Cuba), Thailand, Pakistan (Lahore), China and Bangladesh.

Maïe Kitamura

Trained at the Paris-Belleville School of Architecture, then a graduate of the Centre de Hautes Études de Chaillot, Maïe is a heritage architect, a lecturer-researcher at the Paris-Belleville School, and President of RL&A. Architects. In addition to her projects in France, where she likes adding sensitive approach to heritage conservation, she has conducted a study for UNESCO on the nomination of the city of Lo Manthang in Nepal as a world heritage site, worked with the APSARA National Authority on the conservation of the temples of Angkor in Cambodia, and regularly contributes to the training of heritage architects of different nationalities in Greece (workshop in Rhodes on seismic stress), Cambodia and Vietnam.

Sixte Doussau

Trained in Civil Engineering at the Ecole Centrale de Lyon, and in Architecture at the ENSA de Lyon, Sixte is a heritage architect with a degree from the Centre de Hautes Études de Chaillot and Managing Director of RL&A. Architects. Winner of the Richard Morris Hunt Prize in 2018, he conducted 6 months of innovative research in the United States on climate emergencies and heritage, with a view to stabilising buildings and affected areas, and their preventive conservation. His dual training enables him to approach buildings with both a structural and architectural vision, which he applies to his French and international projects in Italy (Rome) and Tunisia.