This lecture will explore multidisciplinary architecture firm Jakob + MacFarlane’s design approach through the lens of one of their key projects, unpacking the original design intentions, the resulting spatial, functional, and aesthetic outcomes, and the innovative strategies that shaped its realisation. Drawing on their interdisciplinary and experimental practice, the talk will reflect on how architecture can challenge conventions, respond to context, and generate new architectural languages through form, technology, and experience.
Dominique Cecile Jakob
Jakob, born in France, graduated from the Ecole d’Architecture Paris- Villemin (1991) after having received a degree in art history from the Université de Paris I (1990). In 1998, she and Brendan MacFarlane co-founded Jakob + MacFarlane, a multidisciplinary, multicultural practice whose innovative, socially committed architecture is tailored to meet the environmental and other challenges of the 21st century.
Brendan MacFarlane
MacFarlane, born in New Zealand, graduated from the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) in Los Angeles and received his master’s degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Design in Boston. In 1998, he and Dominique Jakob co-founded multidisciplinary architecture firm Jakob + MacFarlane.