He has studied architecture at the Ecole d’architecture de Paris-Belleville from where he got his architect’s degree in 2004, under the direction of Jean-Pierre Feugas (for the project) and Pierre Clement (for the thesis). In Kolkata, Laurent Fournier worked under Sobhanlal Bonnerjee and Dulal Mukherjee, and started a short evening course on natural architecture at Modern Academy of Continuing Education. He works mainly in refurbishment and adaptive re-use of existing buildings, in mud and bamboo buildings, as a structural consultant, and as a trainer in natural and bio-climatic architecture.