Barclay & Crousse: Other tropics
Sandra Barclay and Jean Pierre Crousse, winners of the 2018 Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize, discuss recent projects.
May 7, 2019
Recorded on April 23, 2019.
Current Work is a lecture series featuring leading figures in the worlds of architecture, urbanism, design, and art.
Sandra Barclay and Jean Pierre Crousse founded Barclay & Crousse Architecture in 1994 in Paris. Headquartered in Lima since 2006, the studio works on projects that explore the relationship between landscape, climate, and architecture.
The firm’s design for a new academic building at the University of Piura won the 2018 Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize.
For their Current Work lecture, Barclay and Crousse discussed projects including:
The lecture was followed by a conversation with architect Stella Betts, a founding partner of LEVENBETTS.
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