Nicola Delon
studied architecture at Toulouse and at the Université de Montréal as well as at McGill University and received his diploma from the Architecture School of Paris La Vilette. In 2001 he founded Encore Heureux, agence d’architecture, with Julien Chopin. The work of Encore Heureux includes projects for temporary facilities, including a proposal for travelling performance halls using the French railway network (2005), Thèatre 95 (Cergy
Pontoise, 2006) and the installation ‘Lieux Infinis’ in the French pavilion at the Venice
Architecture Biennale in 2018, which was curated by Encore Heureux. Building projects
include Ciné 32 (Auch, 2012), the Ateliers Médicis (Clichy-sous-Bois, 2018) and the Lycée de Longoni (Mayotte, under construction). In 2015 Delon was selected as the ambassador for architecture at the Assises de la Jeune Création.