Clara Domange is a French-American Architectural Designer based between Paris and Los Angeles. 

She graduated with a Bachelor of Architecture from Ecole Spéciale d’Architecture in 2015 and with a Master of Architecture from Yale University in 2020.

Over the past decade, Clara has worked on a wide range of projects, of various scales and programs, both in architecture firms and independently. Her architectural career began in 2013 when she interned for AMA, an architecture and urbanism firm in Paris, assisting primarily in the development of a large-scale mixed-use building in Mantes-la-Jolie, France. Subsequently, she joined award-winning Polly Osborne Architects (FAIA) in Los Angeles, a firm focused on site-specific, environmentally conscious residential projects in California.

Upon graduating from Yale, Clara was awarded the Horse Island Fellowship to design and construct a self-sufficient Research Station for the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History. Located on a small island off the Connecticut coast and completed in January 2021, the Station received an AIA Connecticut Design Award for Excellence in 2023. It operates entirely with renewable and passive energy systems and is made of reused, sustainable and locally sourced materials.

She then joined Barthélémy Griño Architectes in Paris to manage the Masterplan of the INSEAD Campus in Fontainebleau, France. In collaboration with Agence Ter, landscape architects, she contributed to a comprehensive reorganization and renovation strategy for the campus, encompassing twenty-four buildings over a ten-year phasing plan. The project resulted in a book of architectural and urban guidelines, a detailed cost estimate and a carbon-zero energy strategy, all approved and now underway.

Clara originally launched her independent practice in 2016 with an 18th-century apartment renovation in Paris, and now with the complete renovation of a 1920s Spanish house in the Hollywood Hills. She has collaborated on the renovation of a historical building in Lisbon, as well as with a Parisian firm to convert commercial and office spaces into short-term housing. Clara holds a particular interest in temporality and how the history, identity and character of a place, with careful consideration of its context, can merge with the standards of today and the concerns of the future – creating architecture that bridges functionality and beauty, while celebrating how people live and feel.