Isabelle Régnier

Her career as a journalist began in 2000 after a period spent working for cultural institutions in New York and then Hong Kong. She first worked for the magazine Les Cahiers du cinéma, where she covered the economics of cinema and cultural policy (under the pseudonym Anne Ballylinch). She then joined the editorial staff of Le Monde in 2002. After fifteen years as a critic in the cinema section, she was given responsibility for the newspaper's architecture and heritage section. Isabelle Regnier is the author of two documentaries, La Rue est à eux (2010) and Pièce Montée (2012). Winner of the Prix de la critique de l'Académie d'architecture in 2019, she has contributed to several books: Jacques Rozier, le Funambule (Cahiers du cinéma, 2001), Elles construisent, portraits d'architectes franciliennes (Maison de l'architecture d'Ile-de-France, 2024), La Fondation danoise: Kaj Gottlob (Still, 2025). She also teaches as part of the Arts master's programme at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure and the cultural journalism master's programme at the Sorbonne Nouvelle.