Barclay & Crousse was founded in 1994 in Paris, France. Since 2006 the studio is based in Lima, maintaining their activity in France with Guilhem Roustan and Jean Marc Viste, partners of the new Parisian studio Atelier Nord-Sud.
Their work manage a wide range of programs, in France and Peru, and focuses both on the relationship to landscape and human wellbeing through pertinence in use, space and light. The aim of their buildings is to improve the natural and built environment with a rational and sustainable approach, in which the human being is a central issue.
Barclay & Crousse has received several international awards from Architectural Review, Architectural Record and Wallpaper among others. Their work has been recognized at the Buenos Aires Biennale with both de Biennale Latin America Prize and the International Critics Prize. Equis house has been first runner-up for the best built project at the IV Bienal Iberoamericana, and Malraux Museum got a nomination for the French prize Equerre d’Argent. Their work has been exhibited and published worldwide. The Italian editor Lettera Ventidue has recently published a monographic book about their works in the Peruvian desert coastline.
They are both professors at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú since 2006. Crousse has also taught at l’Ecole d’Architecture de Paris Belleville, and has been a visiting professor at Università di Reggio-Calabria, Universidad Nacional de Buenos Aires, Universidad Diego Portales and Universidad de los Andes. Barclay is a Fulbright fellow and won the Robert Camelot price for the best academic project in France.