Barbara Lambec

is a French HMONP architect, heritage expert, researcher and educator at EPFL and visiting scholar at CCL (Cornell, NY). She specialized early on with a bachelor’s degree in Applied Arts in Paris (2004-2007). She studied Architecture at the École Nationale de la Ville et du Territoire de Marne-la-Vallée and at TU Eindhoven (2007-2012) and passed the jury of the Ordre des architectes (HMONP, 2013). She then specialized in Heritage at the National School of Paris Belleville (DSA, 2013-2015). She very early developed a passion for the banal and its necessary ingenuity due to the economy of means and therefore chose to work on existing Parisian buildings, carrying out more than a hundred projects of rehabilitations and structural repairs for condominiums (AAAE, 2014-2017 / ADDA, 2017-2020). She has been part of roundtables, cities and architects’ associations to defend recent heritage (1950-80’). Her dissertation research at the Structural Xploration Lab focuses on evaluating the reuse potential of building elements (2020-2024).