MAISSA ARCHITECTURES Sarl

Architect, planner, educated, and licensed in Italy since 1999, Jean Pierre Maissa has a history of successful projects ranging from Urban design and remodeling, university campuses, office buildings, leisure and hospitality, and housing. He has Interned and collaborated in Paris, Milan, Brussels, and Genoa. Mr. Maissa has championed an array of international collaboration in projects in France, Italy, Egypt, Gabon, and neighboring African countries. He thrives when complexity, out-of-box thinking within an extreme outreach for pragmatism, and urgent implementation, are at play. He possesses a detailed-oriented mindset and organizational skills that have led him- while settled in Africa (Gabon)- to piloting a small team of up to ten people, for over fifteen years, and posing it as a stemming point for larger international collaborations. From there he oversees the concept, the development, and the implementation of every project, each one within a unique and ever-changing contextual framework that somehow mirrors the often diluted architect/client relation or particular institutional settings of regulations or budgetary, timeframe, or building conditions. The project of the E3MG campus – a mining and metallurgy engineering school- in Moanda, Gabon, delivered in 2017, has been recognized internationally, as a finalist for the 2019 World Architectural Festival, with publications in Achdaily, Dom Publisher’s monography of Subsaharan African Architecture, and Dezeen.