Françoise Fromonot

Françoise Fromonot is an adjunct professor for Rice Architecture. She is an architect and critic based in Paris, currently a professor in design, history, and theory at the École Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Paris-Belleville. A former contributing editor to l’Architecture d’Aujourd'hui and joint editor of le visiteur, she was a founding member of the Paris-based architecture journal criticat.

Fromonot is the author of numerous monographs and essays on contemporary architecture, including Glenn Murcutt: Buildings and Projects (1995/2003) and Jørn Utzon: The Sydney Opera House (1999), which both received an architecture book of the year award from the French Architecture Academy in Paris. She recently edited a monograph on the large-scale projects of French landscape architect Michel Desvigne titled Transforming Landscapes: Michel Desvigne Paysagiste (2020).