Brendan MacFarlane, born in New Zealand, graduated from the Southern California Institute of Architecture (Sci-Arc) in Los Angeles (1984) and received his Master’s degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Architecture in Boston (1990). He has taught at the Bartlett School of Architecture in London, the Ecole Spéciale d’Architecture in Paris, the Harvard School of Architecture in Boston, and at Sci-Arc in Los Angeles. Brendan has been regularly invited to participate in conferences and juries around the world, notably at the Architectural Association, the Pompidou Center, and at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. He is partner in the Architectural firm Jakob + MacFarlane, based in Paris, France.