François Valentiny, Founder VALENTINY hvp architects, Luxembourg, will lecture at SHARE Bucharest 2022 Forum

François J.V. Valentiny was born in 1953 in Remerschen, Luxembourg. After studying in Nancy and at the Universität für Angewandte Kunst in Vienna in the master class of Wilhelm Holzbauer, the architect started the architectural office H&V in 1980 together with his study friend Hubert Hermann. Following a restructuring in 2012, Valentiny hvp Architects sees the light of day with the partners Mag. Arch. François J.V. Valentiny, Dipl.Ing.Arch. Axel Christmann, Dipl.Ing.Arch. Daniela Flor, M.Arch. Jeanne Petesch and Architect D.E. Laurye Pexoto. After 40 years of work, François Valentiny and his office left their marks worldwide: the Teatro l’Occitane in Trancoso, Brazil or the spectacular 2010 Expo Pavilion in Shanghai, among others.

Valentiny stands for bold, almost futuristic designs with character. For him, architecture is a wonderful way to say goodbye to your own problems and to take care of the problems of other people. He teaches architecture at DeTao Masters Academy in China and has been named one of the world’s top one hundred architects in Korea in 2016 by his colleagues. He founded Luxembourg’s first architecture magazine, Adato, and sits on architectural advisory boards.

François Valentiny was made President of the “Fondation de l’Architecture et de l’Ingénierie” (today LUCA) in Luxembourg for the year 2006/2007 and in 2006 was awarded the Decoration of Honour in Gold for Services to the Republic of Austria. In 2008 he was honoured for his overall architectural work in the Grand Duchy and abroad and received the Luxembourg Architecture Prize 2007. In 2009 he became a member of the Academia Scientiarum et Artium Europaea in Salzburg, Austria. In 2018 he was awarded the Grand Decoration of Merit by the Land of Salzburg.

François Valentiny founded the Valentiny Foundation in 2014. As institution of public interest, based in the commune of Schengen, the foundation contributes to the promotion of art and architecture in the broadest sense of the term and opens to society through its cultural, social and tourism mission.