I am an intern architect and researcher whose work focuses on urban architecture and the various ways it conditions and organizes human life. Through transdisciplinary thinking which imbues aesthetics, political philosophy, and critical theory, I study the built environment’s influence on behavior, and conversely, how inhabitants of cities collectively shape their shared environment via informal occupation of space. My projects, from my master’s thesis onward, scrutinize architecture and organized society via — in the words of Robin Evans — “tectonics of non-control”, or the deterministic influence of physical environments on the individual and the collective. I am presently collaborating with Alice Covatta, Ph.D. on a research project titled ‘Tokyo Architecture Beyond Isolation’ to study how experimental architectural form can mitigate social isolation in dense urban settings within Tokyo. 

I’ve graduated from the Université de Montréal with a Master of Architecture in 2023. I have since worked at TBA (Thomas Balaban Architect) and have been conducting architectural research in collaboration with Alice Covatta, Ph.D.

















@lucasouell
                                             
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lcsoarch@gmail.com