About Us
MONCADA RANGEL - Architects
Architecture, but also Urban and Territory Thinkers, Design, Interiors, Art Direction, Curatorial Practice, Teachers.
We don’t feel comfortable about a single definition about our practice and therefore we aim to blur the boundaries and ambiguity between inside and outside, informality and shaped, authenticity and globalised, brutal and delicate, designed and accidental, original and copied, unique and standard, traditional and critical.
Architects by training, after working in several countries such as Italy, Spain, Portugal, United Kingdom, The Netherlands, Norway, Dubai and Sweden we founded our practice in Rotterdam in 2012. In 2017, we moved to Syracuse, Sicily.
We believe that everything is Architecture and Architecture is scaleless and meaningful. We think that design can make a better world.
We see the our architectural practice as an Exploration of the Spectrum of the Possible in multiple Territories.
We thinks every project is different. We want each project to be relevant and have a direct response to each brief. We refuse a “house style” and we think we can bring something different to every project.
We work with essential forms and structures that can generate objects, spaces and environments to frame the complexity of life.
Our work has been featured in press including Wallpaper* magazine, Elle Decor, Frame, Wired, Living, Interni, Domus, Dwell and presented in the Salone del Mobile in Milan.
FRANCESCO MONCADA
(Syracuse, Italy 1976) is an architect and he studied in Palermo, Italy and in Pamplona, Spain. He has lived and worked in Spain, UK, Portugal, The Netherlands, Norway, and Dubai. Among other experiences he has worked for seven years with OMA-AMO/Rem Koolhaas as a Project Leader where he designed the transformation of the 16th century Fondaco dei Tedeschi in Venice, the scenography for the Greek Theater of Syracuse in Sicily, the Knoll Pavilion 2016 at Milan Salone and the flagship store for the jewelery brand Repossi in Place Vendome, Paris. Since 2017 He is teaching at the Design Academy MADE Program in Syracuse and co-curating the summer educational program of MADE LABS together with Formafantasma. In 2021 has been appointed by the Town Hall of Syracuse as Art Director of the Dionysian Wall Park in Syracuse for the installation of five Architectural Pavilions. Currently is a PhD Candidate at FAUP (Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto). From 2022 he is co-curating with Mafalda Rangel the Archisummit conference program in Porto, Portugal. From 2023 is a Board Member of Ordine degli Architetti di Siracusa.
MAFALDA RANGEL
(Porto, Portugal 1980) is an architect and lighting designer, graduated with honors in 2004 from FAUP- Architecture Faculty of Porto’s University, Portugal. She has a Master in Architectural Lighting Design from KTH, Stockholm, Sweden. She has been teaching as a guest critic in the University of Trondheim (NTNU) in Norway. She has been working for five years at OMA/Rem Koolhaas following the construction process of two major projects (Timmerhuis in Rotterdam and Qatar Library in Doha) and two years at MVRDV as a Project Leader in urban projects in Shenzhen, China and Seoul, South Korea. Since 2017 She is teaching at the Design Academy MADE Program in Syracuse and co-curating the summer educational program of MADE LABS together with Formafantasma. Currently is a PhD Candidate at FAUP (Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto). From 2022 she is co-curating with Francesco Moncada the Archisummit Conference Program in Porto, Portugal