CAMILLE BREUIL RECOMMENDATION LETTERS
September
To Whom It May Concern,To whom it may concern,
Since joining BIG in May 2019, Camille Breuil has demonstrated a strong passion and motivation for urban & landscape architecture design. She has been working on a large range of projects from medium to large scale projects across the world, mainly in Europe and Asia such as: City Life Milan, Hellinikon Athens tower, Oppo Headquarters, CJ Masterplan in Seoul, the Lyon metro line, the Railway train station of Brno competition among many others.
Camille has worked in project teams, primarily related to architectural concept, competitions and development projects. Her responsibilities have included design lead, managing teams and landscape concept developments from initial research to SD phases.
I am pleased to assert that Camille Breuil has pursued a fruitful passage as a landscape architect at Bjarke Ingels Group, from May 2019 until July 2021. During that period, I had the chance to work with her side by side on a few different projects. When I first met her, I was immediately struck by her curiosity, proactivity, resourcefulness, and desire to actively participate in a heavily charged creative environment. Whenever a new task was given to her, she would take up the challenge and solve it brilliantly and beautifully, always with an excellent attitude, professionalism, and a minimum of supervision. On many occasions, she has proven she has powerful holistic architectural thinking, which is remarkable for her experience level.
The two main projects which we have been working together are:
LYON: Lyon Metro, Ligne E, 5 000 m2/station, Lyon, FR
I have gotten to know Camille as a great talented, creative and passionate architect. She has a strong work ethic, an eye for detail while still easily grasping the big picture. No matter the task, Camille has ensured it and handled competently. All her responsibilities have been addressed with professionalism and enthusiasm. Her passion for her field and desire to share her knowledge has been evident in her daily interactions with team-members, as well as partners.
DEICH: Deichmanske Library, 14 500 m2, Oslo, NO
Moreover, she highly participated in growing the landscape department and was devoted to build a strong identity and team within BIG.
Camille has stood up as a key member of the BIG L team, always bringing up new ideas to develop the department and giving her best for the projects she was involved in. She has not only been a highly valued employee, but also a devoted and cherished team-member for her colleagues.
Committed to a project until it was achieved, she worked extra hours when needed to complete the task at hand to ensure the highest level of deliverables. Now that she has decided to move on to her next adventure, I could only imagine that Camille will not only achieve it but do it with an outstanding balance of commitment and sense of responsibility. It is therefore with all my conviction that I recommend her for being part of your organization.
We strongly value Camille’s talent and ability. There is no doubt that she is a sensitive thinker and rigorous researcher as well as a keen designer. Therefore, I highly recommend Camille and wish her the best of luck in her future endeavors.
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me.
Yours sincerely,
Ulla Hornsyld Director of Landscape BIG, MDL, MDB
+45 40 18 44 79ullahornsyld@hotmail.com 5th, 2021
Gabrielle Nadeau Associate BIG / Architect +45 25 10 44 54 gn@big.dk
Paris, August 7, 2023
At last, and perhaps most important, Ms Breuil has always been appreciated as a kind and generous presence in a group of students or professionals. A small anecdote from her undergraduate years to illustrate my point: when most students would turn up for final review before Christmas with tired faces, her work and good mood would lift up the room, and she would also bring homemade cookies she had taken the time to bake to cheer everyone up!
Dear Colleagues,
Camille Breuil has asked me to write a letter of reference on behalf of her application to become a University Assistant at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. I am delighted to do so. I am an Associate Professor of Urban Studies at the School of Architecture in the University of Paris and a Fellow in the Centre for Housing Research at the CNRS. I met Camille Breuil in 2014 as a student in my undergraduate design studio, and noted already then her intellectual capacity and her extraordinary commitment and dedication to architecture. She has been regularly in touch ever since and she is, in my view, an extraordinary young architect and an outstanding candidate for this teaching position.
Please allow me to point out a few aspects of her overall application that seem especially noteworthy and relevant.
For her Master’s degree, she wrote a thesis on how the Seine’s regulation and flood control affected the daily life of a population living in the margins and poverty. Her work integrated environmental questions, addressed issues related to sustainability, and relied on anthropological observations that came from a carefully documented ethnography. It touched upon engineerial, technical and regulatory aspects, while at the same time articulating them with the impact they had on the day-to-day of a community living close to the water. This brought a poetical and philosophical depth. In a nutshell, her exceptionally active and adventurous mind puts into perspective practice with theory.
The richness of her understanding and interest in all sorts of cultural practices has led her to actively contribute to a large spectrum of offices in scale and scope. This abundance of her international experience in architectural offices based in New York, Copenhagen, or the Austrian Alps, has continued to develop her critical capacity to understand architectural practice and the theoretic debates in the field, and also to situate them within an international contemporary discourse. During the regular conversations I have had with Ms Breuil throughout the years, it became clear that her architectural choices beyond the curiosity to explore and experiment, denoted a rigorous self-reflexivity regarding the profession.
Overall, Camille Breuil is, in my view, an outstanding candidate for your position. Beyond her extraordinary capacities as a motivated, serious, and disciplined young professional, her intellectual appetite for bridging practice with theory will be particularly well-suited for an academic context in which she will be able to pursue her interest in research, and share her theoretical thinking as well as practical and professional skills. There is no question whatsoever that she possesses the stamina necessary for a rigorous long-term academic career and that this would be a first step into it. She is multi-lingual, interdisciplinary, with a proven record in architectural practice. Her overall record is consistently exceptional. And if I may be permitted to say, I wish I could have such an intellectually stimulating and gracious colleague.
If you have any further questions, please do not hesitate to contact me.
Sincerely,
Sandra Parvu, MA (Cantab), MArch. (Princeton), PhD (EHESS) Associate ProfessorContact details over the summer sandra.parvu@paris-valdeseine.archi.fr
+33 4 79 81 99 74 (landline)
+33 6 21 81 22 43 (cell)
