MIT Department of Architecture
Fall 2019 Lecture Series

The 25th Pietro Belluschi Lecture

6:00 PM
Room 10-250

Founded in Paris in 1994, Barclay & Crousse Architecture has been based in Lima, Peru, since 2006. The studio manages a wide range of programs on a transcontinental basis, leading a design laboratory that explores the bonds between landscape, climate, and architecture. Their work challenges common notions about technology, usage, and well-being that, from specific conditions of developing countries, can inform and be pertinent in a global context.

Barclay & Crousse was awarded the Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize 2018 by IIT Chicago, the Oscar Niemeyer Prize 2016, the Peruvian National Prize of Architecture in 2014 and 2018, and the Latin America Prize 2013, given by the International Committee of Architectural Critics (CICA). Barclay and Crousse were curators of the Peruvian Pavilion at the 15th International Architecture Exhibition at the Venice Biennale, 2016, which obtained the Special Mention of the Jury. In the 16th edition, their lecture building for the University of Piura was part of the curators’ exhibition.

Barclay is an Honorary Fellow of the American Institute of Architects and foreign member of the French Académie d’Architecture. She received the 2018 Woman in Architecture Award from the London-based Architects' Journal and Architectural Review. She currently teaches at the PUCP in Lima and is recipient of the Norman R. Foster Visiting Professor of Architectural Design at Yale University (2019).

Crousse is director of the Master Program in Architecture at the PUCP in Lima and has served as a design critic at the Harvard GSD (2015) and at Yale University (2019). He has previously taught at the Paris-Belleville School of Architecture (1999-2006). He is a foreign member of the French Académie d’Architecture.