26 Feb 2G Fala
Fala is a young architecture practice founded in 2013 in Porto, working often with tight budgets, existing buildings or spaces, sometimes even listed. Their work is playful and graphic, creating a spatial tension between the old and new or the modern openplan inside and the historic outside. Fala, led by Filipe Magalhães, Ana Luisa Soares, and Ahmed Belkhodja, works with recurrent elements, which they call tropes, whereby they created a distinctive spatial vocabulary. Colour is used for punctuation, geometric forms are integrated to guide the gaze. And their collages to visualise the projects are the icing on the cake, a true artwork by themselves.