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Vincent Dumay is an architect whose practice explores the use of earth and other low-impact materials in contemporary architecture. Working across architecture, landscape, installation and scenography, he uses built projects to investigate how local resources, construction techniques and craftsmanship can inform new ways of building in response to the climate and biodiversity crises.
His work develops through a close relationship with making, combining design, full-scale experimentation and collaboration with craftspeople and material specialists. His practice builds on several years of research and hands-on training in earthen construction across France, Sweden and Central Europe. Learning and transmission are central to this process: he approaches each project as an opportunity to acquire knowledge through making and to share it through teaching, workshops and collaboration. Exhibitions and installations provide another means of bringing these materials, techniques and questions into a wider public conversation.
A central ambition of his practice is to contribute to the development of earthen construction in Sweden and, more broadly, to the emergence of the knowledge, skills and material networks needed to make earth a viable part of contemporary building culture. By connecting architectural practice, material research, craftsmanship and education, his work seeks to help create ways of building that are more closely rooted in local resources, places and the people who inhabit them.
Supported by
Swedish Arts Grants Committee
Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts
Helge Ax:son Johnson Foundation
European Crafts Alliance
Estrid Ericson Foundation
J.L. Eklund Craft Foundation
Helgo Zettervalls Fond
ARQ Foundation
FFNS Foundation
Japan Foundation
Nippon Foundation Sasakawa Grant
contact
+46 (0) 73 912 80 24
contact(at)vincentdumay.com