Clément Willemin

Clément Willemin is a landscape designer, urban planner and architect. He was born in 1975, graduated in 2000 from the Versailles National School of Landscape Architecture, and founded his agency Wald (We Are Landscape Designers, or Willemin Architecture Landscape Design) in 2019. He is the designer of more than 500 public space projects, and the author of exhibitions and conferences in France, Belgium, Switzerland, Italy, Germany, Russia, Arabia and Vietnam. He remains a partner of the base agency he founded and managed in Paris. He has taught landscape and urban planning in Versailles (ENSP), Strasbourg (ENSAD), Zurich (ETH), and Vienna (Angewandte). He is a member of the ADAN, Architectural Design Association of Nippon, of the administrative council of the ESAJ, School of landscapes of ecological transition, alongside Jacqueline Osty and Gilles Clément. He is also a founding member of the COAL association, which works to promote contemporary artists committed to ecological issues. He graduated as an architect at the École Spéciale in 2019, received the Urban Planning Medal from the Academy of Architecture, and published his first landscaping essay the same year: Walden x.

Pauline Renaud

Pauline has been accompanying Clément for over 10 years. An architect who has always worked in landscape agencies (ANMA Nicolas Michelin, Base), she obtained her title of landscape designer in 2020. A graduate of the École d’Architecture de Haute-Normandie, she completed her training with a master’s degree in Landscape Architecture from the Polytechnic University of Barcelona. Pauline has directed important and complex studies of urban planning and landscape in Spain and in France, from Clichy-sous-Bois to Chatenay-Malabry to Bordeaux Euratlantique to Reims station. Our clients appreciate her talent and human qualities, her ability to listen and understand complex urban situations.

Tanya Souris

Tanya (CDI) has been passionate about landscape since childhood. With a high school diploma specialized in agronomy, the living and ecology (STAV), a BTS in landscaping, a bachelor’s degree in ecology, she also took courses at the National Museum of Natural History with researchers Bernadette Lizet and Philippe Clergeau. Her job as a student: in charge of differentiated management in the city of Blanc-Mesnil. Tanya then graduated from ESAJ before enrolling in the City Planning major at Sciences Po Paris, from which she graduated in 2019. She joined Wald in 2020 after working with Base and TER. As a child of suburban Paris, she lives in Montfermeil and puts all her talent and passion for landscape in projects of all kinds and of all scales. Tanya is extremely knowledgeable in botany. Very creative, she always designs elegant and adapted green atmospheres in grounded and sentient urban planning projects.

Robert Helmholz

Robert is a freelance planner and architect. Born in Munich in 1972, he was project manager at the AUC alongside Djamel Klouche, Caroline Poulain and François Decoster for 11 years, then in his own structure V-OLZ for 7 years. He now shares his rich experience with his students at La Villette, his architectural projects and our urban planning topics, where his expertise in urban and architectural feasibility is precious. Robert has been working with Clément for many years within his various structures, and instills his precision in our urban planning and new housing neighborhood projects.

Christopher Gonçalves

Christopher Gonçalves, both an architect and an engineer, worked for 5 years as an external works engineer at the ATEVE design office before joining Wald in 2020. Graduate engineer in urban engineering (Ecole des ingénieurs de la Ville de Paris – Ecole supérieure du Génie urbain) and architect at La Villette, he has a solid technical experience in design office, where he was responsible for many complex projects. His excellent pencil stroke serves him daily to design sentient yet realistic projects, with a concern for feasibility and respect for budget and schedules. An inventive and curious engineer, he is also an architect passionate about urbanity and life.

Simon Ferré

Simon Ferré is an architect, (graduated in 2014 from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Paris Val-de-Seine), but he specializes in urban agriculture and is passionate about the informal uses of public spaces in Latin America. Quadrilingual in French, Spanish, Portuguese and English, he has a rich professional experience in urban planning in El Salvador, Panama, Mexico, Peru and Brazil… and in Paris at Base. Today in Mexico City, he works on staggered schedules, and delivers in the early morning the fruit of his research along with magnificent illustrations that delicately tell our proposals of agricultural or urban atmospheres and landscapes.

Mike Huchard

The team’s newest recruit, pursuing his master’s degree at the Paris-Malaquais school of architecture, Mike grew up between Paris, Dakar and New York and is a big fan of travelling. Curious and versatile, he regularly participates in the designs and drawings of our various projects.

Nadine Schütz

Nadine is a sound architect and artist, and is our regular partner on landscape’s 5th dimension: its sound. In parallel to her projects of soundscapes, she is currently developing our Zurich branch.