Clara Domange is a French-American architect based between Paris & Los Angeles, licensed in California, NCARB certified, and recognized as a qualified architect in France by the Ministère de la Culture.

She holds a Bachelor of Architecture from École Spéciale d'Architecture (2015) and a Master of Architecture from Yale University (2020). 

Over the past decade, Clara has worked internationally on residential, cultural and institutional projects, from renovations to new constructions, and on all stages from concept to completion. 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 has pursued independent projects since 2016, beginning with the renovation of an 18th-century apartment in Paris; more recently, she completed the full renovation of a 1920s Spanish house in the Hollywood Hills. She has also collaborated on the renovation of a historic building in Lisbon, and partnered with a Parisian firm to convert commercial and office spaces into short-term housing. With a longstanding commitment to sustainable and environmental design, Clara’s work is drawn to temporality — how the history, identity, and character of a place, with careful consideration of its context, can meet the standards of today and the concerns of the future. She is interested in an architecture that bridges functionality and beauty, and that celebrates how people actually live and feel within the spaces they inhabit.