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Alexandre Pavlidis founded OFFICE MUTO in 2018. Based in Paris, his practice is also active in Greece, Portugal 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 his 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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Alexandre Pavlidis fonde OFFICE MUTO en 2018. Basé à Paris, le bureau est également actif en Grèce, au Portugal et en Suisse, tandis qu’il enseigne aujourd’hui à l’ENSA Paris-Val de Seine. Diplômé de l’Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL, Msc Arch), il a conduit une recherche intitulée “Architecture, the Art of Permanence” sous la direction de Kersten Geers et Roberto Gargiani. Son architecture s’est notamment formée en travaillant avec les architectes Rem Koolhaas à OMA (Office for Metropolitan Architecture) et David Chipperfield à DCA.

OFFICE MUTO, winner of the EUROPE 40under40® Design Award, most promising architects in 2024.

OFFICE MUTO, nominated for the GREEK ARCHITECTURE AWARDS 2023

OFFICE MUTO, nominated for the prestigious price of the ÉQUERRE D’ARGENT 2020.

OFFICE MUTO, winner of the ARCHITECTURE MASTERPRIZE AWARDS 2023

OFFICE MUTO, nominated for the INTERNATIONAL PIRANESI AWARD 2023

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.

Dipl. EPFL — Ordre des architectes n°085956