PSA Public Lecture — ITAR architectures

PSA Public Lecture — "Inhabited densities" by Ingrid Taillandier, ITAR architectures

Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2026 at 6:30 pm, 52 rue Bichat 75010 Paris

Free and open to the public, followed by drinks

Architect DPLG since 2000, Ingrid Taillandier builds, researches, and teaches. She is a graduate of the Paris-Belleville School of Architecture and holds a master’s degree from Columbia University. This dual trajectory, spanning the Old World and the New, imbues her practice with an affirmed rigour, a mastery of conceptual thinking, and a strong social ethic.

Ingrid has collaborated in France and internationally with Philippe Gazeau, Richard Meier, and Behnisch & Partners before founding her own practice, ITAR architectures, in 2006 in Paris. She has been teaching in architecture schools since 2005, first at Paris-La Villette and, since 2011, at Versailles, where she co-directs the international master’s program in Ecological Urbanism. Her expertise in high-density urban environments was also showcased in the exhibition "The Invention of the European Tower," held at the Pavillon de l’Arsenal in Paris in 2009, for which she served as scientific curator. Exhibitions and publications have followed in steady succession. The most recent, "Density of Lives," was published in September.

Ingrid's lecture at PSA, "Inhabited densities," will focus on ITAR's architectural approach. The studio's work is above all driven by a commitment to offering users the highest quality of inhabitation, enabling them to dwell simultaneously within the city and within their homes. The care devoted to construction reflects ITAR’s concern for the longevity of places: the transcendence of a purely functional reading of programs, together with the use of high-quality materials, lends dignity and sensuality to the lived experience.

Welcome Ingrid!

Visuals: (1) Batignolles, Paris 17e © Sergio Grazia (2) Tolbiac, Paris 13e © 11h45