The Practice
Curtaz Studio is a London-based architecture and design practice set up to create buildings as a bespoke, idiosyncratic response – although there exists a common thread across all the schemes, every design is uniquely tailored around each project’s context and brief.
Our experience spans a range of sectors including bespoke homes, housing, arts/culture, commercial and furniture/product design.
We approach each job with a collaborative and engaging attitude, with a strong focus on materiality and sustainability. With each opportunity, a balance is sought between originality through exploration, and simplicity through careful resolution: an architecture that is easy to read, but interrogates space and form in new ways.
Director/Founder
Marco Curtaz initially set up the practice shortly after graduating from the Royal College of Art in 2008, to provide architectural services to clients looking for unique design solutions. In addition to this private work, he has gained invaluable design experience at RIBA Sterling Award winners AHMM, conceptual studio Chora Architecture and Urbanism, commercial interiors experts Studio Buschow, and boutique practice Guard Tillman Pollock specialising in bespoke new-build houses.
In this period Marco has designed and delivered a range of project types including eco-homes, offices, high-end residential alterations/new-builds, shops and restaurants, housing developments, art galleries/exhibition spaces, health clinics, a hotel, and a public library. His projects achieved a number of accolades, as listed below, including winning RIBA awards and Grand Designs House of the Year, and selection for the Venice Architecture Biennale exhibition.
Awards / Exhibitions
2018
RIBA/Grand Designs Awards, London House of the Year
2017
Best of Houzz Award, Service
2016
UK Property Awards, Single Residence, London, 5-star Winner
2014
‘Time Space Existence’, Palazzo Mora, Venice Architecture Biennale, Italy
NLA Don’t Move Improve Awards, Home Extension, Shortlisted
LABC Building Excellence Awards, London, Highly Commended
2012
UK Property Awards, Unbuilt Single Residence, London, 4-star Winner
2010
Arch+ Exhibition ‘Post-Oil Cities’, Stuttgart & Berlin, Germany
2009
International Energy Efficiency Fair, Xiamen, China
Fachhochschule Intramuros Show, Dusseldorf, Germany
Dutch Design Week, Eindhoven, NL
2008
Designhuis ‘Talent’ Exhibition, Eindhoven, NL
‘Show RCA’ Royal College of Art Summer Design Show, London
London Festival of Architecture, ‘Routemaster’ Exhibition, London
2007
‘The Great Exhibition’, Royal College of Art, London
Publications
Mark Magazine #68, 06.17
Dezeen, 23.2.15
Wallpaper* 16.9.15
Time Space Existence, La Biennale di Venezia, GAAF 2014
Architecture Today, Inhabit, Spring 2014
Dezeen, 18.1.14
Arts Journal, Slipped Disc, 2.1.14
Building Design, First Look, 10.12.13
Wallpaper* 20.9.13
Architect’s Journal, Daily News, 28.5.13