Studio Ectypos is a design collaborative begun by Michele Marquardi and Lucia Pirzio-Biroli in 2001.
They provide Architecture, Planning and Design services.
Their work is comprehensive from the smallest detail to the broadest vision.
Their architecture is balanced, essential and appropriate for people and the environment.
Their planning shows a respect for the natural and manmade character of the site making manifest what is not yet visible.
Their design uses materials and techniques that give form and structure to ideas.
In their projects the site/context/landscape is never separate from the proposed building and is in fact typically the protagonist.
Human scale from domestic to territorial spaces qualifies every aspect of their work.
They work directly with the clients knowing that the success of all projects is not just in the abilities of the architect
but in the active participation of the client in the process.
For them the quality of the built and un-built environment is fundamental to the wellbeing of society at large and
look for all opportunities to improve it.
