OFFICE MUTO
Architecture Firm Paris / France
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Alexandre Pavlidis founded OFFICE MUTO in 2018. Based in Paris, his practice is also active in Greece and Switzerland while he is currently teaching in ENSA Paris-Val de Seine. Graduated from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL, Msc Arch), he has conducted a research on "Architecture, the Art of Permanence" under the direction of Kersten Geers and Roberto Gargiani. Through he experience he has been working with architects that formed his practice such as Rem Koolhaas at OMA, and David Chipperfield at DCA.
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Architecture fundamentally lies in the act of fixing elements in time and space. By doing so, it divides reality in two states: the permanent and the transient. As if life was a piece of music, architecture is the structure that gives it its tempo — Architecture is the permanent scene of an unknown scenario. Therefore, we must determine what is worth being materialized and fixed as a permanent element, and how much should it rhythm and influence its content. How should it be realized to persevere and cohabitate with the transient movements of life?
OFFICE MUTO aims to create spaces that suggest action and imagination through the precise definition of the silent and ordinary elements of architecture to welcome the transient movements of life. An architecture that highlights the beauty of the banal and the beauty of nature. Rather than the over-expressive character of lots of contemporary creations, we aim to create an architecture that does not speak too much, spaces that are silent but implicit — full of meaning and potentials — to inspire the life it contains. Whereas we live an epoch of incessant change, we aim to use the inherent character of permanence in architecture to create buildings that can last and age to carry the luster of time as the fertile memory of a place and its inhabitants. Buildings that can become the durable guiding thread through which cities and society can evolve.
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Architecture fundamentally lies in the act of fixing elements in time and space. By doing so, it divides reality in two states: the permanent and the transient. As if life was a piece of music, architecture is the structure that gives it its tempo — Architecture is the permanent scene of an unknown scenario. Therefore, we must determine what is worth being materialized and fixed as a permanent element, and how much should it rhythm and influence its content. How should it be realized to persevere and cohabitate with the transient movements of life?
OFFICE MUTO aims to create spaces that suggest action and imagination through the precise definition of the silent and ordinary elements of architecture to welcome the transient movements of life. An architecture that highlights the beauty of the banal and the beauty of nature. Rather than the over-expressive character of lots of contemporary creations, we aim to create an architecture that does not speak too much, spaces that are silent but implicit — full of meaning and potentials — to inspire the life it contains. Whereas we live an epoch of incessant change, we aim to use the inherent character of permanence in architecture to create buildings that can last and age to carry the luster of time as the fertile memory of a place and its inhabitants. Buildings that can become the durable guiding thread through which cities and society can evolve.
Alexandre Pavlidis founded OFFICE MUTO in 2018. Based in Paris, his practice is also active in Greece and Switzerland while he is currently teaching in ENSA Paris-Val de Seine. Graduated from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL, Msc Arch), he has conducted a research on "Architecture, the Art of Permanence" under the direction of Kersten Geers and Roberto Gargiani. Through he experience he has been working with architects that formed his practice such as Rem Koolhaas at...
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