Rodrigo MARCONDES FERRAZ
Also a FAU-USP Architect and Urban Planner, attends the Master program at FAU-USP and is professor at Universidade Paulista - Unip. Has previous experience at Zanettini Arquitetura (São Paulo) and is responsible for design coordination at FGMF. 

 
Founded in 1999, Forte, Gimenes & Marcondes Ferraz (FGMF) has shown in these few years the abbility and flexibility to deal with a wide range of design types and scales.

Based on the partners’ international and academic experience, our studio pursues a different and fresh approach to every design proposed. There are no pre-determined formulae or strict method defined –  we start always from scratch and make the design our research tool for a brand new vision of the city.

We are proud to have earned several relevant national architectural prizes, mostly awarded by the Brazilian Institute of Architects (IAB-SP), wich stimulates our focus on creative and efficient designs. In 2008, we received the Architec’s Prize at Living Steel International Architecture Competition: were one of the 12 teams chosen among  256 qualified applications (from a total of 1166  applications from all around the world) to present in Helsinki house designs for an extreme environment.

Our network counts with local representatives in the main cities of Brasil such as Rio de Janeiro, Curitiba and Recife. In São Paulo, our team
Our work is developed in partnership with the most renowned landscape and lighting designers, structural and M/P/E engineers, sustainability and climate consulting to achieve the highest standards of technical solutions.