Paul-Antoine Lucas

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.


Awards & recognition:
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”


Industry experience:
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