Dr. Jean Crousse

Biography

Jean Pierre Crousse is the Charles Gwathmey Professor at Yale School of Architecture and a prominent architect who founded the practice Lima Milan. He holds a Master’s degree in Landscape Architecture from UDP, Chile, and serves as the Director of the Master Program in Architecture at PUCP in Lima. His teaching career includes positions at the Paris-Belleville School of Architecture from 1999 to 2006, an Associate Professorship at PUCP since 2006, and visiting positions as a Design Critic at Harvard Graduate School of Design from 2015 to 2022 and at Yale from 2019 to 2021. He has also taught at the University of Virginia in 2020. Crousse is a foreign member of the French Académie d’Architecture and co-founded Barclay & Crousse Architecture in Paris in 1994, establishing the Lima branch in 2006. His practice has won numerous international awards, including the Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize in 2018 and the Oscar Niemeyer Prize in 2016. His work has been featured globally, including a major exhibition at the 16th Venice Biennale in 2018, where he also served as a curator for the Peruvian Pavilion, receiving a Jury’s Special Mention.

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