| School: School of Communication & Design |
| Department: Design Studies |
| Position: Associate Lecturer |
| Location: RMIT Hanoi |
| Email: paul-antoine.lucas@rmit.edu.vn |
Paul-Antoine Lucas is an architect, educator, curator, and researcher based in Hanoi. Through teaching, curatorial and editorial work, his research focuses on the right to housing in Europe, intersectional practices in architecture, social and spatial infrastructures of support in public space, and emancipatory pedagogies in architecture education.
Paul-Antoine founded in 2019, together with Bui Quy Son the critical spatial practice Exutoire. From 2020 to 2022, he taught at the Institute of Urbanism and Landscape at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design (AHO) in the capacity of assistant professor, and as visiting lecturer at TU Darmstadt in 2023. Between 2022 and 2023, he was curator-in-residence at ROM for kunst og arkitektur in Oslo. In 2023, Exutoire’s writings were published by Magasin for Bygningskunst og Kultur and the Canadian Centre for Architecture.
- HMONP, ENSA Paris-Malaquais
- MArch, Oslo School of Architecture and Design (AHO)
- BArch, ENSA Paris-Malaquais / Hong Kong University
- Spatial Concepts
- Interior Design
- Urban development in South-East Asia
- Politics of public space
- Queer and gender studies in architecture
- Emancipatory and liberatory pedagogies in design education
- Political, economic and social models for equitable housing solutions
- Intersectional spatial practices
- Hanoi craft villages
Exhibitions
- November 2023 (upcoming). Group exhibition, Hånden og maskinen at National Museum for Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo, Norway
- May-June 2023. Co-curator, Dissident Publics: Future Artefacts of Queer Methodologies at ROM for kunst og arkitektur, Oslo, Norway
- May-June 2021. Co-curator, Safe Space at ROM for kunst og arkitektur, Oslo, Norway
Articles
- May 2023. “Paris: Between Collective Practices and Searching for Queer Spatialities in the City”. Montreal: CCA publications, 2023. Co-author with Bùi Quý Son (Exutoire)
- April 2023. “Brussels: Struggles, Memories of Shared Experiences, and Queer Tactics of Resistance”. Montreal: CCA publications, 2023. Co-author with Bùi Quý Son (Exutoire)
- March 2023. “Stockholm: The Excess of Meaning and the Labour of Joy in a Queer Practice of Architecture”. Montreal: CCA publications, 2023. Co-author with Bùi Quý Son (Exutoire)
- February 2023. “Designing Collectivity: Not-for-Profit Housing in Oslo”, in Magasin for Bygningskunst og Kultur, nr. 5, 2023. Co-author with Bùi Quý Son (Exutoire)
- 2022. ‘Twelve Tableaux: Tales of a Queer Architecture’, in Safe Space zine 6: a queer practice of architecture. Oslo: Safe Space publishing, 2021. Co-author with Bùi Quý Son (Exutoire)
Editorship and Publication Design
- Dignified Reception: Bucharest. Oslo: The Oslo School of Architecture and Design, 2023 (upcoming). Co-editor with Håvard Breivik-Khan and Bùi Quý Son and Designer (Exutoire)
- Nationaltheatret: Out of House. Oslo: The Oslo School of Architecture and Design, 2022. Co-editor with Bùi Quý Son and Gro Bonesmo and Designer (Exutoire)
- Learning Flexibility: Novel Responses to Urban Challenges and Crises. Oslo: The Oslo School of Architecture and Design, 2021. Designer (Exutoire)
- Safe Space zines 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 & 6. Oslo: Safe Space Publishing, 2021. Co-editor and designer with Bùi Quý Son and Armelle Breuil (Safe Space collective)
- In Transit: Oslo Files. Oslo: The Oslo School of Architecture and Design, 2021. Co-editor with Tone Selmer-Olsen, Håvard Breivik-Khan and Bùi Quý Son, Designer (Exutoire)
- Arkitektstudenter Skriver: Treasures from the AHO Library. Oslo: The Oslo School of Architecture and Design, 2020. Co-editor with Mari Hvattum and Victor Plahte Tschudi, Designer
- In Transit: Architectural Solutions in emergencies. Oslo: The Oslo School of Architecture and Design, 2016. Editorial assistant and Designer
2023
- Nordisk Kulturfond–Globus Opstart (Nordic Culture Fund)
2022
- Nordisk Kulturfond–Globus Opstart (Nordic Culture Fund)
- Kulturetaten (Agency for Cultural Affairs, City of Oslo), Etableringsstipend, establishment grant
2021
- Fritt Ord (The Freedom of Speech Foundation), grant for publication projects focusing on diversity and representation
- Balansekunst (The Art of Balance), grant for projects focusing on equity in the arts
- Kulturrådet (Arts Council Norway) / Gjesteopphold, grant for guest residencies
- Kulturrådet (Arts Council Norway) / Tverrfaglige tiltak, grant for multidisciplinary projects
- Kulturrådet (Arts Council Norway) / Tidsskrift og kritikk ekstraordinær utlysning – kulturelt
2022
- Årets vakreste Bøker (Norway’s most beautiful books of the year: Silver, “Series”)
2021
- Canadian Centre for Architecture: Emerging Curator Residency Program, Finalist
2019
- Renzo Piano Foundation, Travelling Scholarship “Renzo Piano World Tour 2019”
- 2019 – present. Architect and co-founder of the spatial practice Exutoire
- 2022 – 2023. Curator-in-residence at ROM for kunst og arkitektur, Oslo, Norway
- 2020 – 2023. Co-founder of Safe Space Collective, Oslo, Norway
- 2018 – 2021. Architect at Spacegroup, Oslo, Norway
Education
- 2023 – present. Associate Lecturer in Design Studies, RMIT University, Hanoi, Vietnam
- 2023. Visiting Lecturer at the Chair of Architecture Theory and Science, TU Darmsadt, Germany
- 2020 – 2022. Assistant Professor at the Institute of Urbanism and Landscape, the Oslo School of Architecture and Design (AHO), Oslo, Norway