Fewer projects, full attention
We turn down more work than we take. Every project gets the same architect from first sketch to final walkthrough.
Practice
To build
is to think.
Arco is a small practice — twelve architects and four interior designers. We don't take on more than six projects a year.
In numbers
2009
Founded
16
People
6
Projects / year
26
Buildings built
How we work
Everything made in-house
Every drawing is made in our office. Every model is built by hand in our office. That is how Arco handles time.
Concrete as vocabulary
We return to the same materials — concrete, glass, raw timber — because restraint is what lets a site speak first.
Design with time, not against it
A building should read differently at 7am and at dusk. We design for light before we design for form.