(b 14 Jan 1934). French architect, teacher and theorist. He studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, but was inspired early on by the works of Le Corbusier and disliked the school’s traditional approach. While on a scholarship at the Politecnico, Milan (1960), he met Ernesto Nathan Rogers, who encouraged him to rebel against Beaux-Arts architecture and in 1962 he won a scholarship to the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, where he studied under Robert Le Ricolais (1894–1977) and Louis Kahn. In 1965 he ran the revolutionary teaching studio Atelier Collégial no. 1, Paris; it was run democratically by students and survived for a year. In 1968 he was asked to reform Beaux-Arts teaching. His group UP6 (Unités Pédagogiques), formed in May 1968, was based on Louis Kahn’s call for an anti-monumental architecture that was responsive to local topography and materials. Finding UP6 too reductive, however, he left in 1969 to form UP8 at Belleville, Paris, later establishing the Institut d’Etude et Recherche Architecturale et Urbaine. Between 1974 and 1977 Huet was the editor of Architecture d’aujourd’hui, Paris, and he used his position to call for a rational reappraisal of historic buildings and planning in France. In 1981 he opened his own office, in Paris. In the same year he won a competition to convert the 19th-century Ferme du Buisson, Marne-la-Vallée, into an art and cultural centre. He placed his new building inside the restored shell of the old one, expressing his interest in conserving but not mimicking historical architecture. Another example is his restoration (1987) of the Place Stalingrad, Paris, where he designed new gardens to complement the Rotonde by Claude-Nicolas Ledoux. Gardens held a particular fascination for him because, like cities, they develop over time. He won the Grand Prix de la Critique Architecturale in 1984.