Unlike a traditional practice, CAMPO strives to serve as a collaboration platform for extremely motivated professionals who seek – above all – to engage architecture, urban planning and landscape design through their complex and multi-disciplinary juxtapositions. It has been a key concept to the practice that design – be it the design of entire cities or of a small part of it – is fundamentally the result of a paradoxical process of debate, a conclusion of both converging and diverging ideas.
With an international team of experienced professionals in architecture, building technology, project management, urban planning, landscape design and environmental planning, CAMPO is able to develop projects that are both economically efficient and innovative. Operating within a highly collaborative framework of fragmented authorship, CAMPO’s team structure does not follow ordinary top-down hierarchies, which allows for a high performance of reflexive production.
CAMPO strives to set itself apart from merely commercial practices through a continuous engagement on processes of rigorous critical thinking that reflect directly onto the qualities of its work methodology and production. This condition led to the development of a very particular design methodology in the practice, one that considers a more horizontal relationship within its team and with its clients. In this context, CAMPO aims at making a contribution towards understanding architecture and urbanism as tools for the development of potentials rather considering them merely as sets of strict limitations and rules.
The office's working methods involve a distinct kind of critical positioning, one that synchronizes direct action with intensive conceptual research and client collaboration. The different scales – from architectural details to planning decisions – are dealt within constant cycles of approximation. Thus, the team is able to promote direct design and strategic responses to different stimuli from the urban and natural environments. Recognizing the transient nature of our contemporary cities, the office understands the expanded boundaries of architectural and urban design as trans-disciplinary fields.
