Tutors

The Paris School of Architecture remains uniquely connected to industry and research allowing its staff to provide a teaching experience that is relevant to contemporary practice.

OUR TUTORS

All teaching staff at the PSA, be they architects, artists, designers, or other professionals are practitioners of their discipline. Every member of staff is actively involved in commercial practice or has founded their own studio or firm.  

  •  Henry Beech Mole

    Henry Beech Mole RIBA

    Academic Council
    Co-Head of School
    Studio & Dissertation
    Architect
    ARB (UK), RIBA (UK), Ordre des Architectes (FR)
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    Henry studied at the Architectural Association and the Royal College of Art in London where he graduated with a Distinction. He has been nominated for the RIBA Bronze Medal, received the RIBA South East award and featured in the Architects' Journal in the UK.

    Henry is a registered architect in both the UK and France, having worked for practices in both Paris and London, he co-founded architectural studio, BoBo, in Montmartre, Paris in 2017. He is also Chief Design Officer for AICI, an Artificial Intelligence design company based in Munich, and co-founded Paris School of Architecture in 2017.

  • Martin Tubiana

    Martin Tubiana

    Academic Council
    Co-Head of School
    Studio
    Architect
    Ordre des Architectes (FR)
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    Martin studied at Ecole Spéciale d’Architecture in Paris and SCI-Arc in Los Angeles. In 2010 he was awarded the 1st prize for the best ESA diploma.

    After international collaborations as assistant during his studies in France, United Kingdom, United States and Japan, he settled in Paris where he worked for Didier Faustino and Dominique Perrault, before cofounding collective practice (Architecturesays 2012-2015, Bunker Palace 2015-2023), working for cultural institutions and events, as well as private sector activities.

    He recently created tg•a aiming to enrich his practise through research and integrating non architectural fields of expertise to his practise, aiming to question the definition of reuse and reinvention in existing architecture, with an special interest in patrimonial environment.

  • Dr Bérénice Gaussuin

    Dr Bérénice Gaussuin

    Academic Council
    History & Theory/Critical Writing
    Architect
    Ordre des Architectes (FR)
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    Bérénice Gaussuin is an architect, and associate professor at École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture Paris-Malaquais in Paris. She studied architecture at ESA and art history at Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. She also studied at École de Chaillot, specialising in restoration of historical monuments. She is researcher at LIAT (Laboratoire Infrastructure Architecture et Territoire) and completed her PhD thesis under the supervision of Professor Dominique Rouillard at Université Paris-Est on the dichotomy between the notions of restoration and creation in the 19thcentury. As a practitioner, she mainly works on historical monuments and heritage matters.

  • Agnė Beech Mole

    Agnė Beech Mole

    Academic Council
    Professional Practice, Administration
    Architect
    Ordre des Architectes (FR)
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    Agnė trained at the Vilnius Gediminas Technical University graduating with Distinction, and then École Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Paris-Belleville, also graduating with Distinction before completing her HMONP at École Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Nantes.

    Agnė is a French-registered architect, she co-founded BoBo in Montmartre, Paris in 2017, specialising in the technical and construction stages of residential and hotel projects.

  • Yasemin Sahiner

    Yasemin Sahiner

    Academic Council
    Studio
    Architect
    Chamber of Architects (TR)
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    Project Manager at Kuma & Associates Europe in Paris, Yasemin Sahiner obtained her Master’s degree in Advanced Design Studies Program (T_ADS) at The University of Tokyo - Department of Architecture, an advanced research and education laboratory with a focus on Digital Fabrication and Sustainable prototyping. Her research work has been exhibited in Shinjuku Ozone Gallery in 2013.

    Her professional experience covers project management for international project teams, design as project architect for competition and projects of various scale and complexity in wide range of countries from Sweden, Australia, Canada to Switzerland, Turkey, and Italy; adopting a distinctive technical approach acquired through Kengo Kuma and Associates.

  • Emilio Koutsoftides

    Studio 1 Visiting Tutor
    Architect
    Architects' Association (CY)
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    ​Emilio Koutsoftides is an architect and artist living and working in Paphos, Cyprus.

    After studying architecture at the Canterbury School of Architecture he worked for firms in Cyprus and Malaysia and successfully participated in international competitions.

    From 2016 to 2018, Emilio worked at Teecom, involving designing exhibition venues worldwide. He has worked for the Phillip and Patricia Frost Museum, Miami at the M+ Museum, Hong Kong, the National Museum of Jordan, the American Natural History Museum, New York and for the EXPO 2020, Dubai.

  • James A M Smith RIBA

    Studio 1 Tutor & Dissertation
    Architect
    ARB (UK), RIBA (UK)
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    James is an architect currently based in Zurich, Switzerland, where he works with Hurst Song Architekten, having previously worked in London and Berlin. James studied at the University of Cambridge and the Royal College of Art. His thesis project explored the potential of an infrastructural environmental architecture in the Pearl River Delta of China. His current research explores the intersection of emerging digital technologies and the environmental imperative of the 21st century.

    Before joining PSA, James served as chair of the External Examination Jury.

  • Luc Izri

    Masterclass Tutor
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    Luc is a graduate of ESA in Paris, specialising in complex geometries, parametricism and representation. He has brought his knowledge to more than fifteen offices across Europe & the Middle East.

    While teaching software interoperability and scripting approaches at ESA and ENSAPM, he has strived to extend the theoretical field at the crossroad of philosophy and architecture through a few articles already published and a post-master's degree (La Villette – research in architecture).

    Since 2010 his work on topological exploration alongside David Tajchman has been published worldwide and awarded multiple times.

  • Jade Mroueh

    French Language
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    Jade is a tutor for French as a foreign language. A native of Lyon, she qualified in International Business, French as a Foreign Language and Linguistics. She studied and worked for 10 years in a number of different countries, including Argentina, Germany, Ireland, Japan, Lebanon, Mexico, Myanmar, Ukraine and the USA. Passionate about all languages, she has taught herself many foreign languages and through this developed teaching techniques that she brings to the study of French. She now lives in Paris where she teaches to Professionals, International students and Refugees.

  • Helmi Mhiri

    Helmi Mhiri

    Helmi Mhiri
    DipPSA
    Masterclass Tutor
    Designer
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    Helmi graduated with Distinction from the National School of Architecture and Urban Planning of Tunisia (ENAU) in 2019. He furthered his education by becoming one of the inaugural graduates of Paris School of Architecture (PSA) after finishing his masters there in 2023, also graduating with Distinction.

    Helmi is due to obtain his Architect's license from the Tunisian Order of Architects (OAT) in the Autumn of 2024 while actively contributing to the field as a designer at BoBo, Paris, and also as a masterclass tutor at PSA.

  • Delaney Inamine

    Delaney Inamine

    Masterclass Tutor
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    Delaney is a graduate of the Bachelor's course at the University of California Berkeley and the PSA Diploma at Paris School of Architecture. Her diploma project "Stateless Embassy" was awarded for best research Brief and was published on Dezeen.

    Delaney assists the studio subject, as well as teaching a number of masterclasses in the Communications subject.

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Our staff, be they architects, artists, designers, or other professionals are practitioners of their discipline. See our positions here.