Gustavo Penna Arquitetos Associados (GPAA) believes architecture is a tool for transformation. For more than five decades, the firm has created spaces that connect people, landscape, and culture, uniting aesthetics, ethics, and purpose.
Our mission is to design architecture that integrates, welcomes, and transforms. Every project begins with listening, understanding the place, and respecting its memory. We work collaboratively with clients, communities, and multidisciplinary partners to build meaningful solutions that respond to social, economic, and environmental challenges.
Innovation at GPAA emerges from empathy and context. Each project seeks balance between technology and craft, between the digital and the human. We explore sustainable design as an act of regeneration, using architecture to restore ecological systems and strengthen the collective fabric of cities. As a Certified B Corporation, GPAA aligns creative excellence with positive impact, combining architectural quality with measurable environmental and social responsibility.
Our aesthetics are guided by simplicity, material honesty, and the dialogue between light and form. We believe that beauty is not a luxury but a necessity that invites belonging and care.
From cultural centers and universities to memorials and urban spaces, GPAA’s work celebrates architecture’s capacity to inspire reflection and change. Every drawing, every construction, is an invitation to build a more generous world.