Muoto is an architectural office based in Paris since 2003. Its activities cover the fields of architecture, urban planning, design, teaching and scientific research. Muoto’s work features minimal structures that can combine different activities, evolve in time, and merge economical and aesthetic issues. Muoto means form in Finnish.
Associated architects
Gilles Delalex
Is a French architect. He studied architecture in Grenoble and Montreal. He holds a Master in Urban Planning and a Doctorate of Arts from Alvar Aalto University, Helsinki. He is a Professor at the School of Paris-Malaquais, where he heads the department of Theory, History, and Project. He has taught at ENPC Paris, Harvard GSD and TU Wien. He is also co-director of the Liat research Lab (Infrastructure, Architecture, Territory).
Yves Moreau
Is a Dutch-Belgian architect. He studied at the Ecole des Arts de Saint Luc in Brussels and graduated from Chalmers Teknista Högskala, Göteborg. Between 2000 and 2001, he collaborated with Blå Arkitektur Landskap, in Sweden. Between 2001 and 2006, he worked with Christian Dior and Dominique Perrault. In 2008 he was awarded the Nouveaux Albums des Jeunes Architectes and Paysagistes. He has taught at Harvard GSD, the Peter Behrens School of Arts in Düsseldorf and TU Wien.
Honours and awards
Equerre d’Argent Prize nomination, Places of Activities category
France 2022
AR Public Awards winner
England 2022
Geneva Prize nomination
Switzerland 2021
Medal of the Académie d’Architecture Française
Dejean Prize 2019
Domus 100 best architecture firms
2019
ArchiDesignClub award nomination
France 2018
Better Building Recognition Europe award winner
Lafarge-Holcim Foundation 2017
BigMat award nomination
Grand prize for Architecture, Europe 2017
Bauwelt award winner
Germany 2017
ArchiDesignClub award winner
France 2017
Equerre d’Argent award winner
France 2016
4th International Holcim Awards winner, silver
Europe 2014
NAJAP award winner
Nouveaux albums des jeunes architectes, French Ministry of Culture2008
Europan 7 prize winner
Villeurbanne project site 2003
L’envers des villes laureate
AFAA, French Ministry of Foreign Affairs 2001
Conferences 2019
Bochum University for Applied Sciences, Germany
Winter Talks 2019/2020, «Joyful Ruins», Bochum, December, 2019
Air, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Lecture at the Architectuur Instituut Rotterdam, November 2019
Bund Schweizer Architekten Basel, Switzerland
Lecture at the Annual General Meeting of BSA Basel, November 2019
Karlsruher Institut für Technologie, Germany
Lecture « Double Exposure », Karlsruhe, November 2019
Technische Universität, Darmstadt, Germany
Lecture at the Technical University of Darmstadt, November 2019
Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule, Regensburg, Germany
Lecture at the Faculty of Architecture, OTH Regensburg, November 2019
Nuremberg Institute of Technology, Germany
Lecture «Form & Structure, Built Thoughts – Between Theory and Practice», Nuremberg, November 2019
Bergen School of Architecture, Norway
Conference on contemporary architectural praxis lived and defined by innovative and award winning architecture, Bergen, October 2019
Collectif MRC, Paris, France
Lectures on the theme of running in the city, Espace La Montgolfière, Paris, October 2019
AAI, Dublin, Ireland
Lecture at the Architectural Association of Ireland, Dublin,October 2019
Maison de l’Architecture d’Ile-de-France, Paris, France
Round table : «L’architecture à quel prix ?», as part of the Lafarge-Holcim Awards, October 2019
ETSAM, Madrid, Spain
Lecture at the School of Architecture at the Technical University of Madrid UPM October 2019
Barcelona Building Construmat, Spain
Lecture as part of the colloquium «Logicas de innovacion y cambio», Barcelona, May 2019
LUCA, Luxembourg Center for Architecture, Luxembourg
Lecture «Public condenser», programme «This will feed that», Luxembourg, May 2019
DAAD, Bratislava, Slovakia
Lecture, festival Days of architecture and Design, Bratislava, May 2019
Arkitektskap, Oslo, Norway
Lecture at the Norwegian Design and Architecture Centre, Oslo, April 2019
Architecture Faculty Peter Behrens School of Arts, Düsseldorf, Germany
Lecture as part of the colloquium «The Extension of the City», January 2019
RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Lecture as part of the colloquium «Identität der Architektur», January 2019
Monographs
Muoto, n°79, Koenig books, juin 2019
Credits
Maxime Delvaux
Myriam Tirler
Séverin Malaud
Olivier Campagne
Dronestudio
Julien Lanoo
Nicolas Thouvenin
David Foessel
Joshua Delissen
Séverin Malaud
Models
Pierre-Loup Boisseau
Patrice Debois
Jordan Martini
3D Visualisation
Olivier Campagne – Artefactorylab
RSI-STUDIO
ailleurs.studio
ZUMO
Jeudi Wang
Contact
Muoto
architecture studio
48 avenue Claude Vellefaux, 75010 Paris
t +33 (0)9 54 81 09 00
f +33 (0)9 59 81 09 00
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