The architect who tells you the stories hiding behind buildings
I'm Louise, a graduate architect who walks cities to decode them, and turns it into video essays.
I skip the jargon and go looking for the stories hiding in plain sight.
Understand the world through Architecture
This year, I'm heading to Mexico to look at its spaces with local architects, historians and artisans, from pre-Hispanic sites to Barragán's houses in Mexico City.
Follow the journey, and if you'd like to help fund the films, you can support the project here ✨
I studied architecture at ENSA Nantes, and I graduated with one big frustration: architects know so much, but don't know how to make it accessible. Architecture knowledge stays locked inside the profession. Guarded by jargon, complexity, and a quiet assumption that you should already know this. But architecture influences everyone. Every person lives within architecture, whether they notice it or not. And learning to read it means understanding the world around you a little better. Most people walk past extraordinary buildings every day without knowing why they move them, what decisions shaped them, or what story they're actually telling. I started Louise Blanche to close that gap. To take everything I learned inside architecture school and hand it back to the people who never got to sit in on the lectures.
My mission is simple: make architecture legible. I keep the nuance, lose the jargon, and tell it on location, where you can see what I'm talking about. Whether I'm standing in front of a cathedral facade with the architect who designed it, walking through a former church reborn as a food court, or tracing the logic of a Luis Barragán house in Mexico, the goal is the same: show you the thinking, not just the building.
Architecture students and architects need this too. A space to keep learning past the studio crit, to stumble onto a building that raises a question they hadn't thought to ask, to stay curious instead of settling into expertise. The best architects I know never stopped being students. Louise Blanche is built for that same restlessness, whether you've never opened a floor plan or you've spent years drawing them.
I believe architecture is one of the most public forms of storytelling we have. Every city is an open book, if you know how to read it. That curiosity shouldn't require a degree, or end with one. I travel to find the buildings and the people behind them, dig into the history and intent that guidebooks skip, and bring it back as content that respects your intelligence and your time. What I bring is an architect's eye, pointed at the world, and shared with anyone willing to look a little closer.
