Frederique Barchelard is an architect. Her interest focus on how architecture and design could create new conditions of interacting and living together. Her work combines objects and spaces that are simple, rational and comfortable, interrogating images and scenes that are populating our daily life.
Frederique has taught at the Architectural Association in London and London Metropolitan University alongside being invited as a guest critic in a wide range of architectural institutions.
Frederique is a fellow at the Villa Medicis - French Academy in Rome 2019-2020
In 2020 she co-founded Wald.city with Flavien Menu as architects and developers engaged to develop vibrant and sustainable buildings acting to foster low carbon city and economy.
www.wald.city : hello@wald.city
Current and recent exhibitions :
2022 Villa Medicis - Festival des cabanes, Rome. Proto CAMPO a pavillon co-design and built for the Villa Medicis with 44 professional high school students in joinery and carpentry
2022 Floriade Expo 2022, SOLAR proto, Amsterdam - French Pavillon for the international biennale of horticulture and ecology.
2022 Musée Bargoin, Clermont Ferrand. As part of the application to the European Cultural Capital 2028.
2022 Place de Jaude Clermont Ferrand, Proto- Habitat is a flagship for the application to the European Cultural Capital 2028, hosting a series of conferences and discussion on rurality, savoir - faire and craftmanship.
2021 Fondation Carmignac, La Mer Imaginaire. Group Show curated by Chris Sharp + Fondation Carmignac
2021 Artocène Chamonix, Proto Habitat. Curated by Laurene Marechal
2021 2020 La Collection Lambert, Avignon. Les Vies Minuscules. Group show, Festival des residences d’artistes Viva Villa. Curated by Cecile Debray.
2020 Arc en reve centre d’architecture, Bordeaux. Proto - Habitat Fabriquer Autrement du prototype a l’habiter.
2020 Jardin Public, Bordeaux. Proto - Habitat. 1.1 Prototype showcasing a one-year research on “How to develop new forms of housing”.
2020 Villa Medicis, Rome. Dans le tourbillon du tout-monde. Exposition collective. Curated by Lorenzo Romito.
