ad lib architecture & urbanisme was born in 2012 from the will to share various experiences of partners in big international agencies towards a convergent practice. The studio practice browses all scales and all type of programs of project design, from object design to territory matters. With the same care, it questions on the existing heritage and on new constructions.
The choice of the name spins the musical metaphor: ad lib, diminutive of ad libitum, means literally " until I am fully satisfied ", notation mark in written music which gives the interpreter freedom to vary tone and tempo. A metaphor suggesting that the architecture is a given theme, a theme which will be interpreted and varied with variation of use and along the time.