Ido Avissar

Born in 1972, Ido Avissar is an architect-urban planner and holds a doctorate in architecture. From 2003 to 2009, he was a project manager at the AUC for, among other things, Greater Paris, Lille-Fives, and the planning of a new city for 30,000 inhabitants on Reunion Island. From 2009 to 2012, he was a founding partner of the GRAU agency. In 2012, Ido Avissar created the LIST agency, where he developed an approach that combines professional practice and research, aiming to position himself between disciplines—architecture, urban planning, landscape, and planning—rather than within a fixed disciplinary framework.

The agency's projects are on a regional scale (Flanders Master Plan - BRV) as well as a metropolitan scale (ZAC 2 Rives, Strasbourg); they are as much architectural (Frans Masereel Art Center, Kasterlee) as they are landscape-oriented (Metropolitan Landscapes, Brussels), as much forward-looking (Misunderstandings, FRAC Centre) as they are operational (Sports Park, Genk).

After conducting research, notably during the Grand Paris international “research and development” consultation he led within the AUC and his participation in the activities of the reMAP (research, Metropolises, Architecture, Politics) research laboratory at LéaV, Ido Avissar defended his doctoral thesis in architecture in 2018: “The Intensities of Neutrality.”

Ido Avissar has also published numerous articles in which he explores spatial, societal, and territorial issues, questions that are also reflected in the themes of the projects he works on and in his teaching.

A lecturer at the Berlage Institute in the Netherlands and associate professor then full professor between 2014 and 2019 at the École nationale supérieure d'architecture de Versailles, Ido Avissar has been director of the “Fragments” master's program at Ensa Paris-Est since September 2019. At the same time, he teaches urban planning at Sciences-Po.