Artequitectos
the architects in Guimarães, Portugal
Whenever we photograph a project by the Artequitectos studio (from Guimarães), we know we will find great detail and design. For us at Ivo Tavares Studio, it is a privilege to help tell this team's story through our architectural photography. Discover the journey that brings these works to life in the lines below, and at the bottom of the page, explore the full features we have already shot together.
Atelier Artequitectos is an architecture studio founded by architects Nuno Filipe Azevedo and Vítor Oliveira, dedicated to creating contemporary spaces that are sensitive to context and the experience of inhabitation.
The studio’s practice is grounded in a strong technical background and a humanistic approach to architecture, where topography, light, materiality, and place come together with rigour, balance, and poetry. Each project begins with a careful reading of its context — in its physical, social, and cultural dimensions — seeking to establish a coherent relationship between architecture and the place that surrounds it.
The studio’s approach is characterised by conceptual clarity, restrained gestures, and material authenticity, seeking to balance expression and restraint, comfort and sustainability. Attention to detail, scale, natural light, and the ageing of materials plays a fundamental role throughout the design process.
The studio’s experience includes single-family and multi-family housing, cultural facilities, and small- to medium-scale interventions, as well as participation in projects developed through Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) methodologies and BIM processes. This experience allows the studio to combine an authorial and conceptual approach to architecture with a rigorous, collaborative, and technically integrated practice.
Across every project, Atelier Artequitectos seeks to create architecture with tact and presence, establishing a continuous narrative between building and inhabiting.
More than designing spaces, the studio seeks to create places with identity, capable of embracing human experience, engaging with their context, and enduring over time.