Jean-Sébastien Lebreton appointed director of the architectural creation department at the Cité de l'architecture et du patrimoine

Following experience in European architectural firms, he held the position of exhibition curator and then director of exhibitions at the Pavillon de l'Arsenal, the urban planning and architecture center for Paris and the greater Paris area, from 2011 to 2025. During these years, he contributed to the conception and production of exhibitions, publications, and research focusing on emerging architectural practices, urban development, and sustainable materials in light of societal challenges.

Since 2017, through the FAIRE accelerator for innovative architectural and urban projects, it has also been supporting experimentation and know-how in architecture, urban planning, landscape and design.

In 2018, he taught at Columbia GSAPP (New York) and, since 2023, he has been involved at the École nationale supérieure d'architecture de Versailles as well as Paris-Malaquais on the challenges of urban and architectural transformations.

Jean-Sébastien Lebreton will take up his new duties at the Cité de l'architecture et du patrimoine on March 9, 2026, within a renewed management team.

He succeeds Francis Rambert, who was the department's first director, from 2004 to 2025.

In conjunction with the presidency, the general management and the team of the architectural creation department, Jean-Sébastien Lebreton will be tasked with disseminating, sharing, experimenting and promoting contemporary architecture in all its forms and imagining spaces for encounters around architecture, landscapes and territories.