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transdisciplinary architecture studio
from ephemeral to permanent.
São Paulo — Brazil

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Based in São Paulo, Brazil, our studio collaborates with clients and teams across different countries, delivering residential, cultural, and hospitality projects in diverse contexts.

Our work focuses on materiality, light, and proportion, ensuring that each project responds to its place while maintaining the architectural rigor that defines MNMA.

We design locally and internationally, bringing consistency, clarity, and a global perspective to every commission.

all images: @andreklotz by @mnmastudio

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For over a decade, Mariana Schmidt has crafted rigorously simple architecture that moves between the ephemeral and the permanent. Since founding MNMA in 2015, she has embedded the earthiness of landscapes into homes, interiors, cultural spaces, and furniture.

Since its inception, MNMA has upheld its original posture: environment and design as one continuous field. In this transdisciplinary process, architects and visual artists converge, joining traditional craftsmanship with contemporary technology.

A practice guided by matter, light, and time.

Image: @andreklotz by @mnmastudio

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the new MNMA headquarters in central São Paulo. It’s now been 10 years that the studio has existed and I am so happy that my team and I can work in a space that reflects the quietly powerful energy of the @mnmastudio
It was important for me to document these office. I’m so proud to be an independent studio and to have got to this point.

All images : Andre Klotz @andreklotz

Nova sede do MNMA no centro de São Paulo. Já faz 10 anos que o estúdio existe e estou muito feliz que minha equipe e eu possamos trabalhar em um espaço que reflete a energia silenciosamente poderosa do estúdio MNMA.
Foi importante para mim documentar esse escritório. Estou muito orgulhosa de ser um estúdio independente e de ter chegado a esse ponto. by @mnmastudio

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At the Tietê Apartment, art is part of everyday life.

A sculptural work by Brazilian artist Celeida Tostes sits among books, furniture and collected objects. Each piece brings its own history and presence, creating an intimate dialogue between art, personal collections and the rituals of living.

Tietê Apartment, São Paulo, Brazil, 2026.

Photography: André Klotz. by @mnmastudio

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A ground-floor apartment with limited access to natural light. Rather than accepting the depth of the plan as a limitation, the project used it as the starting point.

Daylight now enters from above, through openings positioned across the plan and from a private outdoor area. It moves across walls and surfaces as the day passes. The interior is no longer understood through a succession of enclosed rooms, but through light, proportion and extended visual relationships.

Tietê Apartment, São Paulo, Brazil, 2026.

Photos: André Klotz by @mnmastudio

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Circolo Italiano has been selected as a finalist at the Architecture Hunter Awards 2026, in the Interior Design, Commercial, Offices & Hotels category.

O projeto Circolo Italiano é finalista do Architecture Hunter Awards 2026, na categoria Interior Design, Commercial, Offices & Hotels.

Circolo Italiano, São Paulo, Brazil.

@architecture_hunter @architecture_hunter_awards

Images: André Klotz by @mnmastudio

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What happens when art is not placed within a home, but becomes part of its architecture?

At Tietê Apartment, the collection was never an addition. It was a starting point. Architecture, art and everyday life were conceived as a single landscape, dissolving the distinction between display and inhabitation.

Works coexist with books, furniture and objects, creating unexpected relationships through scale, proximity and use. Stone, timber and restrained surfaces give the interior weight and permanence, while remaining deliberately quiet architecture as a framework, never a backdrop.

Works by Antonio Manuel, Iole de Freitas, Raymundo Colares, Wlademir Dias-Pino, Décio Pignatari, Tunga, Rodrigo Andrade and Robert Rauschenberg introduce different tensions, densities and material presences throughout the rooms.

Not a home that contains art, but a home conceived through it.

PH : @andreklotz by @mnmastudio

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Architecture for a collection. Tietê Apartment, 2026.

Schendel’s practice expanded the possibilities of drawing, investigating language, signs, transparency and the space between things. Tunga approached space from another direction, moving between sculpture, installation, performance, literature and psychoanalysis, creating works in which matter carries physical and symbolic weight.

In the apartment, these different artistic languages become part of the architecture itself. Works are not treated as isolated objects or decorative elements, but as presences that determine scale, rhythm, circulation and the way one moves through the rooms.

Art is not added to the architecture. It helps define it.

Team
Caio Vaz
Isabela Duck
João Senise
Mariana Schmidt
Tiago Cândido

Lead Architect
Rodrigo Rossi

Graphic artist
Mahshid Devalar

Photography
André Klotz by @mnmastudio

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Casa Pituba – Alagoas, Brazil

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Caio Vaz - Lead Architect
Isabela Duck - Lead Interior Designer

Caua Amorim
Carolina Dantas
Mariana Schmidt
Rodrigo Rossi
Tiago Candido

Graphic Artist & Visuals
Bruno Nakaya by @mnmastudio

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Maranhão Apartment, São Paulo, Brazil. Featured in World’s Best IV by @betapluspublishing.

The successor to the highly acclaimed worldwide bestsellers “World’s Best” I, II & III. 80 residential projects from renowned interior designers and architects from all over the globe.

May 2026
872 pages luxury hardcover. by @mnmastudio

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Bahá’í Temple, Brasília, Brazil. Commissioned Project, 2026.

More than an architectural object, the temple is the result of a shared process of construction. On land shaped collectively, architecture and community become inseparable.

Team
Caio Vaz
Mahshid DelAvar
Mariana Schmidt
Tiago Cândido

Graphic Artist & Visuals
Bruno Miura

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Mais do que um objeto arquitetônico, o templo é o resultado de um processo compartilhado de construção. Na terra trabalhada coletivamente, arquitetura e comunidade tornam-se inseparáveis. by @mnmastudio

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Bahá’í Temple, Brasília, Brazil. Commissioned Project, 2026.

The Constructed Unit. Matter has no value in and of itself. Its value lies in the work that passes through it: shaping, laying, erecting. The human gesture does not disappear into matter; it remains inscribed within it.

The temple does not stand upon the land as a finished object. It emerges from the land itself. Before becoming architecture, it manifests as matter.

The building is not merely erected. It is cultivated.

Team
Mahshid DelAvar
Mariana Schmidt
Tiago Cândido

Lead Architect
Caio Vaz

Graphic Artist & Visuals
Bruno Miura

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A Unidade Construída. A matéria não possui valor isoladamente. Seu valor reside no trabalho que a atravessa. Moldar, assentar, erguer. O gesto humano não desaparece na matéria; permanece inscrito nela.

O templo não se estabelece sobre o território como um objeto acabado. Ele emerge do próprio território. Antes de se tornar arquitetura, manifesta-se como matéria.

O edifício não é apenas erguido. Ele é cultivado. by @mnmastudio

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