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The Renault-Barrault Library is the cover story of the June issue of Interior Design.

Renovated Renaud-Barrault Library on the cover of the February issue of Architectural Record. Read the complete story by Chris Foges.

French Pavillon at Venice Architecture Biennal
Inauguration of VIVRE AVEC LIVING WITH
09/05/2025

A big thank you to the team

Fondazione La Biennale di Venezia
Ministère de la Culture
Ministère de l'Europe et des Affaires étrangères
Institut français Italia
ARTER
Dominique Jakob
Brendan MacFarlane
Martin DUPLANTIER
Eric Daniel-Lacombe Architectes
CCR - Caisse Centrale de Réassurance
La Fabrique de la Cité
Saint-Gobain
Immobilière 3F
Le Caillebotis Diamond
AFEX
Conseil national de l'Ordre des architectes
Cerema
hashtag#tess
latetedanslesnuages
Léo Grunstein
SEMPERVIRENS LANDSCAPERS

ENSA Paris La Villette
@ensa.marseille
Kharkiv School of Architecture
SCI-Arc
ainshams ainshams
Université Française d'Egypte (UFE)
Prince Sultan University
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Vivre Avec/Living With in the News: The New York Times by Sam Lubell

At the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale, an installation constructed from scaffolding stitched together with nets and tube-shaped railings wraps the French Pavilion at the Giardini della Biennale and winds its way down to the water’s edge.It’s not a structure meant to dazzle. Instead, it embodies something more pressing: a manifesto for architecture’s role in addressing what the curators Brendan MacFarlane and Dominique Jakob call a “polycrisis” — the overlapping emergencies of climate change, war, displacement, economic instability and systemic inequality.This theme, summed up by the title “Vivre Avec/Living With,” sets the tone for a pavilion at the biennale dedicated to casting an extremely wide net for expertise and employing fast, not-so-precious solutions to an ever-expanding cascade of issues.“We’re not making things as individuals anymore,” Mr. MacFarlane said in a video interview. “We’re working as collectives, linking capacities, sharing intelligences.”The pavilion itself reflects the scrappy nature of this strategy. “It’s not a house, not a building,” he said. “It’s a kind of skeleton. It adapts to the landscape and leaves no trace.”...

For this 27th edition of Art Paris, a major fair for the contemporary art market at the Grand Palais, bringing together 170 exhibitors from 25 countries on 560 m2 of exhibition space in the nave and balconies, Jakob+MacFarlane will be responsible for the scenography for the “French Design Art Edition”, located on the north balconies of the nave. Our scenography is intended to be impactful, creative, poetic and, of course, low-impact.
For more info please visit our design web site www.design.jakobmacfarlane.eu

Conférence de presse le 12 février 2025 présentant le projet  « Vivre Avec / Living With », représentant la France à la XIXème Biennale d'architecture. Dominique Jakob et Brendan MacFarlane commissaires mandataires, en collaboration avec Éric Daniel-Lacombe et Martin Duplantier. 

Vivre avec... l’existant,
Vivre avec... les proximités,
Vivre avec... l’abîmé,
Vivre avec... les vulnérabilités,
Vivre avec... la nature et le vivant,
Vivre avec... les intelligences réunies. 

Our project Vivre avec / Living With laureate to represent France at Venice Biennale in 2025 with the the team Jakob + MacFarlane, Eric Daniel-Lacombe and Martin Duplantier co-curators . Our proposal “Vivre Avec / Living With” questions the capacity of architecture to face climatic and conflicts challenges, and as a whole the instability of our world. To achieve this, the project calls on three intelligences: the intelligence of nature, human intelligence and artificial intelligence.

Design x Durable x Désirable, an exhibition organised by VIA, the French agency promoting innovation in furniture design. Exhibition design by Jakob+MacFarlane.

Renovation of the Madeleine Renaud and Jean-Louis Barrault library in Avignon, France, built in 1985 by Béatrice Douine and Jacques Prunis.

The new solar canopy for the Madeleine Renaud and Jean-Louis Barrault library, work in progress.

A workshop in Cairo for the French University of Egypt, with Raafat Miller Consulting, Sempervirens Landscapers and Artelia.

Invisible Drawings @Jakob+MacFarlane's studio.

Design concept for the Dakar-Yoff Urban Forest in Sénégal.

Transformation of the former ferry terminal in Le Havre, France, into an exhibition space.

An exhibition gallery inside the former ferry terminal in Le Havre.

Design proposal for the Quintaou Mediatheque in Anglet, France.

The Cinema in Pont-Audemer is open. Discover the project.

Jakob+MacFarlane co initiators of the French chapter of the movement "Architects Declare Climate & Ecological Emergency"

Dominique Jakob named Woman Architect of the Year 2019 by Arvha

LIVING WITH ... vivre avec l’existant : recyclage, réutilisation de bâtiments obsolètes, d’infrastructures, de ruines. LIVING WITH ... vivre avec les proximités : travailler avec ce qui est à portée de main, réutiliser les matériaux disponibles et d’autres ressources locales.
LIVING WITH ... vivre avec l’abimé : réparer les dégâts et les destructions causés par l’activité  humaine et les conflits. LIVING WITH ... vivre avec les vulnérabilités : s’adapter aux aléas climatiques, à des milieux difficiles.
LIVING WITH ... vivre avec la nature et le vivant : les écosystèmes partagés, les interdépendances et les performances de la nature (matériaux biosourcés, intégration de la nature productive dans les bâtiments, contrôle climatique à base de plantes et d’autres types de climats artificiels).
LIVING WITH ... vivre avec les intelligences réunies : collaboration entre l’intelligence humaine, l’intelligence de la nature et l’intelligence artificielle.