MBM arquitectes is in reality an architectural workshop with a compact team of architects and staff, including five partners (Martorell, Bohigas, Mackay, Capdevila and Gual), who are committed to a continuous investigation from project to project engaging both clients and various independent professionals and trades in the creative task. MBM literally draw together on the same piece of paper discussing everything with pencils and erasers, backed up with a dialogue between the pencil in the hand and the latest refined digital technology.
This attitude, not only makes the tasks enjoyable, but allows MBM to easily team up with both clients and collaborators of other professions often with different cultures throughout Europe and beyond. However, MBM insists on a strong leadership to ensure an efficient teamwork and control over the original concept, economy and timing.
MBM is still at a level at which can function as a studio rather than in a necessarily corporate way with a core of less than thirty people. It reflects a commitment to a particular way of doing things that is distinctively its own. One that allows it to mix practice with theory to the enrichment of both.
But if it is city renewal that has given MBM a constituency far beyond Barcelona, they also have a distinguished record as architects of sensitivity and discretion. They are not interested in creating aggressive, or spectacular architectural objects, or signature buildings. Yet they make buildings with a distinctive flavour and warmth that clearly demonstrates their roots.