Eric de Broche des Combes

Eric de Broche des Combes is an architect, graphic designer and musician who was born and grew up in le Corbusier’s Cité Radieuse, in Marseilles, in the 1970’s. He studied under the sun at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Marseille in 1997, after which he continued with a post graduate cycle at the GAMSAU (Groupe de Recherche pour l’Application des Méthodes Scientifiques à l’Architecture et à l’Urbanisme).

He moves to grey Paris in 1999 and founds his first visualization studio Auralab, followed a few years later by the now internationally known Luxigon. Famous architectural firms like OMA, MVRDV, RE X, KPF and SOM – to name a few – have all entrusted Luxigon to seduce them with the distinctive, strong visual experience they offer in what could be considered a highly codified and somewhat boring field. Despite this lean towards graphics, he still works as an architect and frequently joins other design teams, contributes to publications and gives lectures on the theory, practice and history of image, with the emphasis on being authentic in the current context.

His interest in virtual architecture and computer gaming technology, and its possible applications in the realms of art, architecture and urbanism, has yielded a new insight into the profession. It is a passion he actively pursues and has earned him a teaching position at the Harvard Graduate School of Design in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he has been lecturing a class called Immersive Landscape from 2013 to 2021 and now Fortress of Solitude.
He likes punk rock and makes weird electronic music.