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Xavier Bohl () is a renowned French architect and urban planner. He created the architecture of the first marina in the Paris region in the 1990s, while working in François Spoerry's architectural office, to which one owes Port-Grimaud. He received several awards for the creation of a garden town at Plessis-Robinson in the 2000s. He is the designer of several renovations of city cores and sustainable neighbourhood constructions.

Biography

Career
Together with his wife, he travelled from Paris to Ankara (Turkey) in 1979. From this experience, he published a book, Maisons Saisons. Observations on vernacular architecture during a walking trip from Paris to Ankara, by two publishers: Éditions Alternatives, in French, and Éditions Yapi Kredi, in Turkish. Passing through Italy and Greece, they make hundreds of sketches, localized and commented, rural and urban houses and architectural details. Xavier Bohl recommends, in his book, an architecture in the strict sense.

He then produced two publications, edited by EDF: Le Bâti ancienne en Corse and Le Bâti ancienne en Beauce and Sologne, which are directly related to his professional experiences in the restoration of the old building, respectively in Corsica (from 1981 to 1983), then in Touraine (from 1983 to 1985).

He became assistant architect François Spoerry in Port-Grimaud (France, Var) from 1984 to 1999 and participated in numerous international projects: Port Liberté in New York (United States), Puerto Cancun and Puerto Escondido in Mexico, extension of the village and creation of the golf course of Gassin (France, Var), a project awarded by the European Architectural Prize Philippe-Rothier in 1998, Les Parcs et Les Restanques de Grimaud (France, Var).

Work and recognition
After the death of François Spoerry in 1999, he created the Xavier Bohl workshop in Port-Grimaud and embarked on urban restructuring projects:
the heart of the city and the garden city at the Plessis-Robinson (France, Hauts-de-Seine), which won the Philippe Rotthier European Architectural Prize for the Reconstruction of the City in 2008 and the European Grand Prix of Town Planning in 2012;
city centres and new sustainable neighbourhoods in Wissous (Essonne), Vaureal (Val-d'Oise), Belgentier (Var), Le Beausset (Var), Cogolin (Var), Port-de-Bouc (Bouches-du-Rhône), Saint-Maximin-la-Sainte-Baume (Var), Deauville (Calvados), Blois (Loir-et-Cher), Quartier des Bergères, Puteaux, etc.

Xavier Bohl has received other international awards, notably for his participation in the Limassol marina project in Cyprus. For the style of the marina, the cabinet was inspired by Port-Grimaud and Saint-Tropez: buildings placed directly in the water, with pastels tones and roofs covered with Roman tiles. The authors of the Cyprus 2016/2017 guide to Petit Fute are hardly impressed, who note that and that he .

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