About
Paule Perron is a practicing architect and researcher based between Geneva and France. Her work operates at the intersection of writing, drawing, and building, interrogating the perpetuation of power structures embedded in the built environment, with a particular focus on body politics and gender studies. Her built projects emphasize minor interventions to create architectural narratives, carefully embedded within diverse contexts and scales, from objects to buildings. After graduating from ENSA Paris-Malaquais, she spent several years collaborating with architectural firms in Paris. She then worked as a teaching assistant at HEAD – Genève, where she became a lecturer, teaching Theory of Interior Architecture to both Bachelor’s and Master’s students. She is the co-founder of minor architects, a collective that seeks to question the impact of architectural practice on the “landscape of our constructed mistakes” (Haraway, 2016). She is also a member of Public Affairs, a curatorial practice examining the public role of space in the construction of sexualized and gendered subjects. She is registered with the Tableau de l’Ordre des Architectes Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes under number 092568.

Contact
paule.perron@outlook.fr
@pauleperron

© Paule Perron, 2025
Website by Anne Seseke

Clients
Fondation HBM Jean Dutoit, Ville du Grand Saconnex, SCEA Domaine de la Meissonnière, HEAD – Genève, Maison de l’Architecture Île-de-France, Salim Fourat. 


Collaborations
Fiona Del Puppo, Giulia Brena, Janus Lafontaine Carboni, Javier Fernández Contreras, Leonid Slonimskiy KOSMOS, Lina Jaïdi, Pablo Brenas, Robin Delerce, Roman Alonso Gomez.


Publications
Perron, Paule. «Troubling domesticities. Alternative spatial narratives for care labor and intimacy.» in Nothing about Interior Architecture, Set Margins, 2025.
Fernandez Contreras, Javier, and Paule Perron. «Architecture, Night, and Dissident Sex: On the Cruising Pavilion module at HEAD – Genève.» in Cruising Architectures, Spector Books, 2025.
Fernandez Contreras, Javier, and Paule Perron. «Instagram, Typology and Architecture. The Interiors of Social Media.» in The Interiors of Social Media, Bloomsbury, to be published.
Fernandez Contreras, Javier, and Paule Perron. «Instagram, Typology and Architecture. The Interiors of Social Media.» Burning Farm, n°14, November 2024. 
Fernandez Contreras, Javier, and Paule Perron. «Instagram, Typology and Architecture. The Interiors of Social Media.» PLOT n°72, February 2024. 174-183. 
Del Puppo, Fiona and Paule Perron. «Room for independence. » Interiors in the Era of Covid-19. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2023. 87-99. 
Perron, Paule and Julien Lafontaine Carboni. «Les inconnues éblouie·s.» Plan Libre. n°185, summer 2021, 12.  
Clément, Garance, and al. «‘Domotopie’ : pour une science de l’espace domestique.» Plan Libre. n°183, May 2021, 16.
Perron, Paule. Textures and times. Framed editions: Paris & Beirut & Madrid, Thirty frames, 2020.
Perron, Paule.  «L’innovation standardisée.» Architecture d’Aujourd’hui. n°409, November 2015, 86-87. 

Talks and round tables 
2024 October 11: «Public Affairs. Reimagining Space, Family, and Politics Through Radical Love Practices.» in Nocturnal Otherness: Space and Difference in the City After Dark session, V International Conference on Night Studies, Lisbon · lecturer.
2024 September 23: «Troubling domesticities. Alternative spatial narratives for care labor and intimacy.» in Nothing About Interior Architecture symposium, HEAD — Genève · lecturer.
2024 March 7: Sacred Grounds - L’architecture de l’invisible, Musée d’art et d’histoire, Geneva · round table guest, with students of the Caring Architecture course.
2023 November 22: «Mediated Archives, The Interiors of Instagram and TikTok», Architecture Archives of the Future», Javier F. Contreras & Paule Perron, Jaap Bakema Study Centre, Netherlands · lecturer.
2023 September 21: Launch of the «Habiter» issue, La Déferlante, La revue des révolutions féministes, Gaïté Lyrique, Paris · round table guest.
2023 May 19: «Des corps dans la nuit», MTL 24/24 summit, Department of Art History and Communications Studies, McGill University, Montréal · lecturer.
2022 November 9: Comment l’architecture renforce-t-elle les dynamiques de genre ?, Maison de l’Architecture Île-de-France, Paris · round table moderator.
2022 September 30: «Des corps dans la nuit», Faire Quartier, Quizaine de l’urbanisme 2021, Pavillon Sicli, Geneva · lecturer.
2022 October 6: «Des corps dans la nuit», International Conference on Night Studies, Colégio Almada Negreiros, Lisbon · lecturer.
2021 September 2: «Make the Walls Speak, architectural drawing as an ethnography method», Explorations in methods to study architecture, Current sociologies of architecture, Fiona del Puppo & Paule Perron, ESA, online · lecturer.
2021 April 8: «Faire parler le logement», Secrets de familles comment enquêter sur l’espace privé ?, Fiona del Puppo & Paule Perron, INED Campus Condorcet, online · lecturer.
2019 March 7: «En quoi l’architecture modèle-t-elle notre manière d’occuper l’espace ?», Les Carnets de la Création, France Culture, air · guest.


Curation
Public Affairs, ET – Espace Témoin, Geneva, 2024-2025. 
Immeuble Clarté, Atelier KOSMOS, Immeuble Clarté, HEAD – Genève, 2023-2024. 
Des Corps dans la Ville : Architectures, Féminismes et Espaces Construits, Maison de l’Architecture Île-de-France, 2023. 

Teaching 
Diffused Domesticities, Theory of Interior Architecture, Bachelor, HEAD – Genève. 2024 - …
Troubling Domesticities, JMA, Master, HEAD – Genève, 2023-2025
Architecture & Expérience, Master, Ecole d’Architecture, de la Ville et des Territoire, Paris-Est, 2023. 
You’ve Made your Bed, Bachelor, HEAD – Genève, 2023
Des Corps dans la Nuit, Bachelor, EPFL x HEAD – Genève, 2022. 
Assistante HES, HEAD – Genève, 2020 - 2024.