JAKOB+MACFARLANE is an architecture, urbanism, research and design office in Paris. They are representing France at the 2025 Venice Biennale of Architecture, with the project LIVING WITH exploring adaptation to climate and geopolitical crisis.
The practice has currently under construction a number of French and international projects, including the new campus of the Université français d’Egypte (the French University of Egypt) in Cairo, a mixed-use tower in the Belgian coastal town of Knokke-Heist, and various cultural and educational buildings in France, such as a dance and music school in Bordeaux and a sports facility in Toulouse. They have recently built two cultural projects: renovation of a library in Avignon and the transformation of an industrial building into a contemporary art center in Limoges, France. Under development is a museum in Dunkerque, and the renaturation of a former industrial site in Burgundy. They have also completed an exhibition design for the latest edition of the Art Paris fair in the Grand Palais and are now working on the upcoming French Design exhibition for the Milan Design Week 2026.
Past projects by Jakob+MacFarlane include: Odyssée Pleyel – Energy Plug in France and Living Landscape in Iceland (both winners of the international C40 Reinventing Cities competition); Euronews TV Headquarters in Lyon, the Cité de la Mode et du Design in Paris.
Their work is published and exhibited internationally.

DOMINIQUE CECILE JAKOB, born in France, graduated from the Ecole d’Architecture Paris-Villemin (1991) after having received a degree in Art History from the Université de Paris I (1990). In 1998, she and Brendan MacFarlane co-founded Jakob+MacFarlane, a multidisciplinary, multicultural practice whose innovative, socially committed architecture is tailored to meet the environmental and other challenges of the 21st century. Dominique has taught at the Paris Villemin and Paris-Malaquais schools of Architecture, École Spéciale d'Architecture (Paris) and SCI-Arc in Los Angeles. She was named Woman Architect of the Year 2019 by French Arvha.

BRENDAN MACFARLANE, born in New Zealand, received his master degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Design, graduated from the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc). In 1998, he and Dominique Jakob co-founded Jakob+MacFarlane, a multidisciplinary, multicultural practice whose innovative, socially committed architecture is tailored to meet the environmental and other challenges of the 21st century. Brendan has taught at the Bartlett School of Architecture and the Architectural Association in London, École Spéciale d'Architecture (Paris), the Harvard Graduate School of Design, Berlage and SCI-Arc, Georgia Tech, Rice University, among others.