Exutoire | About

Exutoire is a queer critical spatial practice that investigates social, spatial, and material justice in and through architecture. We focus on the making of spaces, objects, and platforms (exhibitions, publications, podcasts) that bring forth underrepresented discourses.

Exutoire is self-critical, ultra-referential, collaborative; it is our own creative outlet and our way of challenging normativity and advocating for the common good. It was created in 2019 in Oslo by Paul-Antoine Lucas and Bùi Quý Sơn, both architects and researchers. We are currently based in Hanoi.

*Our self-definition is subject to change; this text is written in June 2025.

Photo by (our dear friend) Solène Moscato, Paris, 2025.

‍⁽²⁰²²⁾ Exutoire is a transdisciplinary critical spatial practice that looks to the intersection of art, architecture and activism to investigate social, material and spatial justice. Our practice finds its form in a research-by-design approach that focuses on the making of spaces, objects and social infrastructure, and the creation of knowledge platforms which bring forth underrepresented discourses and marginalized voices. Exutoire is self-critical, ultra-referential, queer, and seeks to transgress norms and their reproductive character, explore trans-normativity and advocate for the common good. Exutoire was created in 2019 by Paul-Antoine Lucas and Bùi Quý Sơn. We are currently based between Oslo, Paris and Hanoi.

⁽²⁰²⁰⁾ Exutoire is an outlet for some of our silly thoughts and ideas. Our practice is ironic, ultra-referential, queer, cute, quirky, joyous, playful, and sometimes also a bit boring. But no matter what we do, we always try to learn something new, dig a little deeper, engage with subjects that we think matter, and hopefully participate in shaping a better world. Here, we welcome you into our universe by sharing bits and pieces of our work process and what we're up to at the moment. — Sơn & Paul-Antoine
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RESIDENCIES
German Architecture Center DAZ (Berlin), 2025; Villa Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City), 2024; ROM for kunst og arkitektur (Oslo), 2022–2023

TEACHING
RMIT University Vietnam, 2023–2025; TU Darmstardt, 2023; Oslo School of Architecture and Design (AHO), 2020–2022

LECTURES
Vietnamese Women’s Museum (Hanoi); Kunstnernes Hus (Oslo); Faculté d’architecture La Cambre Horta (Brussels); KTH Royal Institute of Technology (Stockholm); Nasjonalmuseet (Oslo); KU Leuven (Brussels); Royal Danish Academy (Copenhagen); KMD University of Bergen (Bergen); Fotogalleriet (Oslo); “Ion Mincu” University of Architecture and Urbanism (Bucharest)

AWARDS
Lisbon Triennale Millennium bcp Début Award 2025, Shortlist; Årets vakreste bøker 2022, Silver prize (Series); Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA)’s Emerging Curator Residency Program 2021–2022, Finalist
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PAUL-ANTOINE LUCAS
1993, France

Currently: PhD in Architecture at PRS / RMIT University, 2025–2029
HMONP ENSA Paris-Malaquais, 2021
MArch Oslo School of Architecture and Design (AHO), 2018
BArch ENSA Paris-Malaquais, 2014

Work experience: Spacegroup, Ghilardi+Helllsten (Oslo); Bjarke Ingels Group (Copenhagen); Louis Vuitton, Moreau Kusunoki (Paris); Riken Yamamoto & Field Shop (Yokohama)

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BÙI QUÝ SƠN
1993, Vietnam
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Currently: PhD in Architecture at PRS / RMIT University, 2025–2028
HMONP ENSA Paris-Malaquais, 2021
MAA Royal Danish Academy (KADK), 2017
BArch ENSA Paris-Malaquais, 2014

Work experience: SLA, Ghilardi+Hellsten (Oslo); Saint Laurent, Ciguë (Paris)
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Exutoire
22 Yên Bái 1, Hai Bà Trưng,
Hà Nội, Việt Nam

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