loci anima is an archi­tec­ture, design and urban plan­ning stu­dio foun­ded by Françoise Raynaud in 2005. Located on the top floor of Pathé Wepler, in the sky above Place Clichy in Paris, the stu­dio has 25 archi­tects toge­ther with an office in New York, direc­ted by Jonathan Thornhill. In Latin, ​“loci anima” lite­rally means ​“the soul of place”: every living being, object, but also natu­ral ele­ment is ani­ma­ted by a spi­rit, a vital force, an energy.