Akris Woman with Purpose, Marie de France creates spaces for better living. As a partner architect and head of Sou Fujimoto’s office in Paris, she is challenging the interconnection of architecture and nature in her work.

Already as a teenager she was fascinated by nature’s inherent beauty and shocked by the way humans build within it. One of the reasons she became an architect and wanted to work with Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto, exploring the contradictions between interior and exterior, constructed and natural and aiming for an architecture in harmony with nature.

Learn more about her take on architecture and fashion, inspiration, and women in architecture here.