ARCHITECTS is a collaborative studio dedicated to architecture and urbanism based in Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil. The office treats each project as a specific job for which a labor organization itself is defined, which allows the formation of various project teams, including the possible participation of external contributors.
This modus operandi extends the dynamic quality of response to the specific problems of each project and dilutes the copyright issue, allowing the permanent transformation and redefinition of each working group, which contributes to its improvement concept.
The work of each partner takes the tradition of Brazilian modern architecture as a starting point. With subtle differences of approach, seeking to rethink some of its key concepts in order to seek appropriate responses to problems and innovative contemporary architecture and the Brazilian city.
Developed in parallel to the practical teaching, office work deals with a wide variety of scales and programs, detached from the public buildings and urban spaces, always committed to rethinking the constructive and programmatic issues beyond the usual applications. The ongoing research is favored by intense participation in open architecture, parallel to reconsider the construction of vernacular buildings on a small scale. An approach focused on contemporary drawings of the main infrastructural elements recognizes the virtues of indeterminacy and seeks an opening targeted for the expansion of the service life of buildings parallel to the consideration of land use change, growth and transformation in time. This approach also allows some less conventional inserts in the construction market to recover concepts such as flexibility, mutability and openness to the user.