Brigitte HELLIN, born in Belgium, and Hilda SEBBAG, born in Morocco, met at the Grand Palais, which housed the Unité Pédagogique d'architecture N° 7, and obtained their diploma in 1983.
Winners of the Programme Architecture Nouvelle PAN 13 in 1984, then of the Albums de la Jeune Architecture in 1988, they quickly had access to public commissions through competitions.
They created the HELLIN-SEBBAG agency in Paris in 1988, then a second agency in Montpellier in 1990.
In 2009, they welcomed a junior partner, Benjamin PIRANY, born in Alsace, who graduated in 2005 from the Montpellier School of Architecture.
Today, the HELLIN-SEBBAG agency designs and builds, for public or private institutional clients, collective housing and public facilities with a rigorous and careful implementation, favoring low-tech solutions in their environmental development.
The architects of the agency are experts in complex programs such as the renovation and extension of high schools in occupied sites, police headquarters, and scientific research laboratories. They invest themselves personally in each project to offer not the mass production of a large firm, but CUSTOMIZED.