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Dominique Gauzin-Müller (born 1960) is a French architect and architectural critic, focusing on wood and sustainability in architecture and urbanism. She is the author of several books on these subjects, which have been translated into several languages. She wrote Construire avec le Bois (1999), L'architecture écologique (2001), 25 maisons en bois (2003) and 25 maisons écologique (2005). Dominique Gauzin-Müller was born in Vincennes, near Paris, but grew up in Saint-Céré, Lot . She studied architecture at the École d'architecture Paris-Tolbiac, under Roland Schweizer, the French specialist in wooden buildings, and Marion Tournon-Branly. 1984 she received a "Diplôme" and in 1985 a "Certificat d'études approfondies" (Masters) in wooden building from the same university. In 1983 she attended a seminar called "Energy planning and the environment" at the Summer University of Oslo. Since her marriage to a German engineer (1986), she lives in Stuttgart, Germany. Dominique Gauzin-Müller worked as an architect for a few years, before devoting herself primarily to writing and teaching. She lectured at the University of Stuttgart between 1988 and 1989. She published Le Bois dans la Construction in 1990. Between 1998 and 2004, Gauzin-Müller was the editor of the book Jean Prouvé - Complete Works, in three volumes, by Peter Sulzer. Since 1994 she has organized over 40 study tours for French architects and engineers in Germany and in the Vorarlberg, including the French National Order of Architects and the National Committee for Development the promotion of Wood (CNDB). In 1995, she received the Prix Henri Courbot for her book Le Bois dans la construction. In 1997 she published, in German, Behnisch & Partner 50 Jahre Architektur on the German architect Günter Behnisch, a book which received the prize awarded to the "50 most beautiful books of Germany". In 1999, Gauzin-Müller published Construire avec le Bois, a work for which she received the Prix Henri Le Même awarded by the French Académie d'architecture.
