Atelier En Vie is an architecture studio created at the intersection of different cultures and worlds.
It takes its roots in France in poetry, in the poetry of details, in the way a project integrates into its territory, with a deep respect for nature and for resources.
Then it expanded in Mexico, where architecture reveals another dimension, deeply connected to cosmology. An ancestral architecture, but also something very technological, very empirical, very raw. Between the past and the future. An architecture that is in direct dialogue with the elements.
At the same time, the founder grew up with a strong connection to Japanese culture, as her father was deeply rooted in Japan. From a very early age, she learned the delicacy of Japanese life a delicate art of living, a sensitivity to lines, to gestures, to silence.
The practice of kata choreographed movements in karate became for her a form of architecture. A way to understand space through movement, through precision, through invisible lines.
From this, a language emerges that she likes to call neo-brutalism taking raw forms and refining them, combining elements to create a new vocabulary. A vocabulary in deep coordination with nature and the elements: the sun, the wind, the earth, the cycles. An architecture that does not try to impose itself, but rather to align, to resonate, to belong.
Do we really need to deploy so much force to impose ourselves on nature? Or can we choose to integrate ourselves, subtly, and co-build with Mother Nature as all species on this planet do, except us?
We are living in a context of identity crisis, of humanitarian crisis, where we are losing the sense of what truly matters, beyond money, beyond beliefs.
Do we choose power, or do we choose consciousness? Do we elevate ourselves towards peace?
For her, as an architect and as a human being first architecture is a tool. A tool to design a world where we can live with awareness.

Founder · Architect
Vie Leclair is an architect and designer based between Mexico and France, working at the intersection of natural materials, biophilic principles, and deeply considered spatial experience. She founded Atelier En Vie as a vehicle for a slower, more intentional practice one rooted in place, craft, and ecological responsibility.
Her work is grounded in hands-on material research, allowing the studio to move fluidly between conceptual exploration and precise, buildable proposals.
Based in
Mexico City &
Paris
Practice Areas
Residential · Interiors
Sustainable Design
Studio Founded
Atelier En Vie
Approach
Natural Materials
Atelier En Vie was founded by Vie Leclair with a conviction: that architecture should breathe. Every project begins with place its light, its earth, its memory and builds outward from there.
We work with natural materials and slow processes to create homes and interiors that age with grace. Our practice spans residential architecture, interior design, and the careful restoration of existing structures.