Ferrier Marchetti Studio

Formerly operating as two separate entities, Jacques Ferrier Architecture and Sensual City
Studio combined in 2019 to create an exciting new offer: Ferrier Marchetti Studio. Ferrier
Marchetti Studio seeks to develop a sensitive, humanist approach to the city, combining
sustainable development and new technologies in the quest for innovation and urban
delight. The result is a preliminary analysis, procedure and stance which informs the
architectural design process. The practice is innovative and idealistic in its approach to what
architects can and should be capable of.
Since 1993, Ferrier Marchetti Studio has believed that architecture should be a radical agent
of change and reinvention. The studio has dedicated itself to the production of innovative
projects and concepts with a commitment to sustainable development as a backdrop. There
are philosophical roots to this approach. The research ethos Sensual City was founded by
Jacques Ferrier and Pauline Marchetti in 2010 as an open resource for collaboration with
other thinkers, and signals the practice’s intention to create an interdisciplinary momentum,
a radical movement fit for the times we are living in.
‘What is needed now is nothing less than a new humanist revolution’
Ferrier Marchetti Studio is underpinned by this laboratory of ideas, creation and urban
foresight, bringing together a network of professions from the worlds of art, architecture and
urban planning, and social sciences. The practice’s work analyses changing trends in large
modern cities to predict the effect that they will have on architecture and that which
architecture should have on them.