spbr architects

Angelo Bucci

Lucas Roca
Vitória de Mendonça
Mateus Evangelista

Angelo Bucci, since 1989, holds simultaneously two complementary positions: professional, as an architect, and academic, as a professor of architecture.

SPBR, founded in 2003, represents the combination of practice and theoretical knowledge, works and words. In the realm of design, the office engages on different scales: houses and buildings. In the realm of words, it promotes a flourish of dialogues: publications, exhibitions, lectures, and studios. Through this method, the interweaving of works and words, SPBR continuously challenges the premises that support the language of architecture.

SPBR’s projects value structural conception, constructive solutions, economic viability, and mainly, the interaction with the city as the domain of architecture.

SPBR is committed to exploring a threshold of unrealized possibilities, searching meaningful designs, informed by previous experiences, the proper use of resources, respect for the heritage, and boldness regarding our legacy for the future.

Awards

2022
Prêmio IABsp 2022 Categoria Edificações – Residencial
e Habitação de Interesse Social 
FIRST PRIZE

Apartment Building in Vila Olimpia (FLOAT)

2021
Prêmio Obra do Ano 2021
FIRST PRIZE
Emergency Hospital in São Bernardo do Campo

2020
Oscar Niemeyer Award for Latin-American Architecture (3rd Edition)
SECOND PRIZE
Emergency Hospital in São Bernardo do Campo

Paulista Association of Art Critics’ Award (APCA)
Best Architecture Work
Emergency Hospital in São Bernardo do Campo

iF Design Award 2020
Category: Product
DocolPlay Shower Spout

2019
Americas Property Awards
Best Residential Vertical Building, Apartment building in Vila Olímpia (Float)
Best Residential Retrofit, Apartment building in Moema (Nomad)

2016
Mies Crown Hall America’s Prize
FINALIST 2014-2015
Weekend House in São Paulo

XX Bienal Panamericana de Arquitectura de Quito
Weekend House in São Paulo

2014
Arquitetura e Construção Magazine Award / The best of architecture
Category: Urban house – less than 300 m²
Weekend House in São Paulo

IX BIAU – Bienal Iberoamericana de Arquitectura y Urbanismo
Weekend House in São Paulo

2010
Arquitetura e Construção Magazine Award / The best of architecture
Category: Beach house
House in Ubatuba, Ubatuba, SP

2009
International Young Generation
XII Architecture International Biennial of Buenos Aires

People

Angelo Bucci
Orlândia, 1963

Architect by University of São Paulo, 1987.

Master Degree, 1998, and PhD, 2005, by University of São Paulo.
Honorary Fellow of the American Institute of Architects (HF AIA), 2011.

Founder and principal in charge of SPBR since 2003.
Founder and former partner of MMBB arquitetos, between 1996 e 2002.

PhD Professor at the University of São Paulo, FAU USP, since 2001
Visiting professor – MIT, Cambridge, US, 2021, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2008.
Visiting professor – ETH Zurich, Switzerland – 2013-2014
Visiting professor – Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, US, 2013
Jury – Holcim International Sustainable Construction Award, 2011
Visiting professor – Torcuato Di Tella – Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2010, 2006
Visiting professor – UT Austin – Austin, Texas, US, 2010
Visiting professor – IUAV – Venice, Italy, 2009, 2008
Visiting professor – GSD Harvard, Cambridge, US, 2008
Visiting professor – Universidad de Cuenca, Ecuador, 2007, 2005
Visiting professor – UC Berkeley, Berkeley, US, 2006
Visiting professor – Arizona State University – Phoenix, US, 2005
Visiting professor – Andres Bello University – Santiago, Chile, 2005

Lucas Roca

Itu, 1990.

Architect by University of São Paulo, 2016.

SPBR arquitetos associate since 2016, colaborated since 2014.

Vitória de Mendonça

São Paulo, 1997.

Architect by University of São Paulo, 2022.

SPBR arquitetos associate since 2023, colaborated since 2022.