Office Muto

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. It follows that the question of the reason and the manner to do so needs to be addressed. What is worth being materialized and fixed as a permanent element? How much should it rhythm and influence its content? How should it be realized to persevere and cohabitat 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. 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.