FGMF Arquitetos

Founded in 1999 by three colleagues from FAU-USP, FGMF Arquitetos set out to produce contemporary architecture without restrictions on materials, construction techniques or scale. Rather than relying on fixed formulas, the São Paulo practice starts each commission from zero and uses drawing as its research instrument to arrive at a new vision of the building, the object and the city.

Partners Fernando Forte, Lourenço Gimenes and Rodrigo Marcondes Ferraz graduated from FAU-USP in 2001 and 2002, and their complementary profiles inform a deliberately plural approach. The office has delivered more than 600 projects over 25 years — houses, residential interiors, mixed-use and commercial buildings, corporate and retail interiors, hospitality, institutional work and urbanism — and holds 286 awards, 133 of them international.