Michel Mossessian

Michel Mossessian
Michel Mossessian in 2010
Born	1959 Paris, Île-de-France, France
Nationality	French
Alma mater	École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts Cooper Union School of Architecture Harvard Graduate School of Design
Occupation	Architect
Awards	MIPIM AR Future Projects Award Holcim Award
Practice	Mossessian & Partners
Buildings	Exchange House, London, UK Vila Olímpica, Barcelona, Spain Five Merchant Square, London, UK NATO Headquarters, Brussels, Belgium ExxonMobil Technology Centre, Shanghai, China
Projects	Musheireb - Heart of Doha, Doha, Qatar (in progress) Place Lalla Yeddouna, Fez, Morocco (December 2013)

École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts
Cooper Union School of Architecture

MIPIM AR Future Projects Award

Exchange House, London, UK
Vila Olímpica, Barcelona, Spain
Five Merchant Square, London, UK
NATO Headquarters, Brussels, Belgium

Musheireb - Heart of Doha, Doha, Qatar (in progress)

Michel Mossessian (Armenian: Միշել Մոսեսյան, born 1959) is a French architect of Armenian descent. based in London, UK.

Michel Mossessian gained his diploma in architecture at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts UP N°8 in Paris, where he also engaged in philosophy under Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucault. He was invited to be a Villa Medicis Hors les Murs fellow at the Cooper Union School of Architecture in New York, where he studied Advanced Design. He subsequently completed his masters in design studies at Harvard Graduate School of Design.

Mossessian worked for Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) as Senior Designer in their Chicago and London offices. Along with Senior partner, Larry Oltmanns, they made a successful bid resulting in the design of the new NATO headquarters in Brussels. Mossessian was made redundant in 2004 before the project was completed. Oltmanns left SOM three weeks later.