CAUE Rhône Métropole

What CAUE Rhône Métropole does

CAUE Rhône Métropole is a French non-profit association (association loi 1901) established under the Architecture Law of January 3, 1977. Operating as the departmental Council for Architecture, Urbanism, and the Environment, it delivers free advisory, educational, and cultural services to individuals, local governments, and schools across the Rhône department and Métropole de Lyon. Its headcount is described as a multidisciplinary team of architects, landscape designers, urban planners, a documentaliste, and administrative staff.

The organization organizes its service portfolio around five areas: individual advisory (construction, rehabilitation, energy renovation, co-property greening), community advisory (municipal planning, quality-of-life charters), educational services (school workshops, teacher training, documentary research), resources (documentation center, publications, open-data territorial notebooks, urban walks), and cultural programming (rotating exhibitions and traveling exhibition loans). Distribution occurs through physical advice points, in-school outreach, the caue69.fr website, social media channels, and email newsletters; there is no software product or platform component — the core offering is human advisory and pedagogical work.

The business model is fundamentally non-commercial: core advisory and educational services are provided free of charge and funded through a designated portion of the departmental taxe d'aménagement, a mandatory public contribution collected on building permits. A secondary, marginal revenue stream comes from sales of publications and educational materials. The organization is governed by a board comprising representatives of the State, local authorities, concerned professions, qualified individuals, the General Assembly, and staff; Frédéric Pronchery serves as President.

Name

CAUE Rhône Métropole

Legal name

CAUE Rhône Métropole

Website

https://caue69.fr

Company type

Private

Founded year

1977

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

CAUE Rhône Métropole is a French non-profit association providing free architectural, urban planning, and environmental advisory services to individuals, communes, and schools across the Rhône department and Métropole de Lyon, funded via the local development tax.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Architectural Advisory Services

NAICS

Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development (925), Administration of Environmental Quality Programs (9241), Landscape Architectural Services (54132)

akta.pro primary industry

Urban & Regional Planning (Land Use, Zoning, Master Planning) (BPAIANAD)

akta.pro secondary industries

Planning, Zoning, Permitting & Code Enforcement (BPAIACAE), State/Provincial Environmental Protection & Natural Resources Administration (BPAIABAL)

Keywords

• Architectural advisory services
• Urban planning consulting
• Environmental guidance
• Public education programs
• Landscape documentation

Headquarters

HQ city

Lyon

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Taxe d'aménagement funding: CAUE is funded through a portion of the departmental tax on building permits (taxe d'aménagement). This is a mandatory public contribution collected by the department.
2. Publication sales: Sale of educational publications, guides, and catalogs related to architecture, urban planning, and regional heritage.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

CAUE Rhône Métropole is a non-profit association that provides free advisory, educational, and cultural services on architecture, urban planning, environment, and landscapes to individuals, local governments, and schools across the Rhône Métropole area. It operates a documentation center, produces traveling exhibitions, publishes studies and territorial notebooks, and runs professional training cycles, all financed primarily through the taxe d'aménagement levied on building permits.

Product overview

CAUE Rhône Métropole is a public service association (Conseil d'Architecture, d'Urbanisme et de l'Environnement) providing free advisory, educational, and cultural services related to architecture, urban planning, environment, and landscapes. The organization operates as a unified service portfolio organized around five main areas: (1) Individual Advisory Services including construction advice, energy renovation, and co-property greening; (2) Community Advisory including municipal planning assistance and quality-of-life charters; (3) Educational Services comprising school programs, teacher training, and documentary workshops; (4) Resources including a documentation center, publications, urban walks, and territorial notebooks with open data; and (5) Cultural Programming featuring rotating exhibitions and traveling exhibition loans. The core offering is advisory and educational rather than a software product, with services delivered through in-person consultations, exhibitions, publications, training programs, and school workshops.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Conseil aux particuliers

Named customers3 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

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Partnerships

Nine partnerships are on record, tiered core, major and minor.

• Fédération nationale des CAUE (FNCAUE)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerNational federation representing and promoting CAUE organizations. Provides networking, information sharing, mutualization of expertise, and unified advocacy for the CAUE network across France.
• Union régionale des CAUE Auvergne-Rhône-AlpescoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerRegional union grouping 11 CAUE organizations (Ain, Allier, Ardèche, Cantal, Drôme, Isère, Haute-Loire, Puy-de-Dôme, Rhône-Métropole, Savoie, Haute-Savoie). Ensures regional representation and implements skills mutualization actions.
• Pavillon de l'ArsenalmajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCo-producer of the 'materia Architectures' exhibition (2026). Major French architecture center partnering on exhibition development and cultural programming.
• Les Grands AteliersmajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCo-producer of the 'materia Architectures' exhibition (2026). National center dedicated to construction materials and techniques, supporting architectural innovation.
• amàcomajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCo-producer of the 'materia Architectures' exhibition (2026). Organization dedicated to promoting material knowledge and sustainable construction practices.
• Association Ouvrière des Compagnons du Devoir et du Tour de FrancemajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCo-producer of the 'materia Architectures' exhibition (2026). Historic French craftsmen organization preserving and transmitting building trades and techniques.
• CeremaminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership for the publication of 'Bien rénover l'habitat en mâchefer' guide. Cerema is a French public research institute specializing in urban planning and environmental issues.
• DDT du Rhône (Direction Départementale des Territoires)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership for the 'Carnets de territoire' initiative, with territorial data published in open data format.
• DRAC Auvergne-Rhône-AlpescoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerRegional cultural affairs directorate that co-finances the 'Architecture au collège' educational network and pedagogical programs.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• ADEME (Agence de la transition écologique): French national agency for ecological transition funding and advising local governments and individuals on energy renovation, climate adaptation, and environmental quality — overlapping with CAUE Rhône Métropole's energy renovation and Végétaliser sa copropriété advisory offerings, though at a national policy and grant-administration scale.
• Pavillon de l'Arsenal: Paris-based architecture and urbanism center focusing on exhibitions, publications, and public education about architecture and city-making. Comparable mission (public-facing architectural awareness) but a broader cultural-institution mandate rather than a département-wide advisory service — also an actual strategic partner of CAUE69 on the 2026 materia exhibition.
• Cerema (Centre d'études et d'expertise sur les risques, l'environnement, la mobilité et l'aménagement): French public expert agency providing technical and methodological expertise on urban planning, environment, and infrastructure to local authorities. It is an actual partner of CAUE69 on the 'Bien rénover l'habitat en mâchefer' guide, addressing overlapping technical advisory demand from municipalities on environmental and urban planning issues.
• Cité de l'architecture et du patrimoine: National institution under France's Ministry of Culture dedicated to architectural heritage, urban planning, and landscape. Operates exhibitions, a documentation center, and educational programs analogous to those of CAUE Rhône Métropole but at a national museum scale rather than a departmental service scale.

Emerging players

• Center for Architecture (New York): US non-profit foundation of the American Institute of Architects New York Chapter, delivering K-12 education programs, exhibitions, and public programs on architecture, urbanism, and design. Shares CAUE69's pedagogical and public-engagement mandate for architecture — especially the school outreach and exhibition-lending services.
• Architecture Foundation (UK): UK non-profit dedicated to public engagement with architecture and urbanism, running public programs, exhibitions, and educational initiatives around London's built environment. It is comparable in mission (democratizing architectural culture and convening public debate) but operates on donations and grants rather than earmarked tax funding.
• Villes Vivantes: French association promoting quality housing and urban renewal through public education and field programs. Operates with a similar public-interest non-profit structure but with a more focused brief (housing and urban renewal), offering a partial overlap with CAUE69's co-property renovation advisory and quality-of-life charter mission.

Direct peers

• CAUE de Paris (CAUE 75): Paris-department CAUE offering the same free architecture/urban planning advisory, exhibitions, and educational programs model — also established under the 1977 Architecture Law, funded by taxe d'aménagement, serving individuals, municipalities, and schools. It is the largest and most visible peer in the national CAUE network.
• CAUE de la Loire (CAUE 42): Another URCAUE Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes member CAUE with identical mandate, funding base, and service catalog (individual advice, communes advice, school pedagogy, documentation). It represents a same-network peer exercising the same mission in a neighboring territory.
• CAUE de l'Isère (CAUE 38): Sister CAUE within the URCAUE Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes regional union, sharing mutualization actions, joint programming, and partnership of co-financed content. Same legal status (association loi 1901), same funding mechanism, same service portfolio, differing only by geography and therefore the most structurally comparable peer.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• YouTubeyoutube.com/user/CAUEduRhone
• Facebookfacebook.com/caue.rhone.metropole
• LinkedInfr.linkedin.com/company/caue-rh%C3%B4ne-m%C3%A9tropole
• Instagraminstagram.com/caue.rhone.metropole/?hl=fr
• Xx.com/cauerhone

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Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

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