Menos é Mais

Menos é Mais (also referred to as Less is More Arquitectos) is a Portuguese architecture practice founded in Porto in 1994 by Francisco Vieira de Campos, who is from Porto, and Cristina Guedes, who is from Macau. The office's name and guiding motto — "less is more" — express its ambition to achieve more with fewer means, seeking a balance between the "economy" of resources and the "wealth" found in materiality and the emotional involvement of users. Its work is described as a pragmatic response to specific contexts, a principle visible from its earliest projects through to later works such as the Recovery Project of Quinta do Vallado and the Archipelago Centro de Artes Contemporânea on the island of S. Miguel in the Azores, the latter co-authored with JMR. The practice operates from Portugal and is privately held.

Menos é Mais was created in Porto in 1994 by Francisco Vieira de Campos, who is from Porto, and Cristina Guedes, who is from Macau. From its founding, the office adopted the motto "less is more," framing its approach as an effort to do more with less and to balance the "economy" of means with the "wealth" in materiality and the emotional involvement of users. The practice describes its works as pragmatic responses to specific contexts, a principle it says is visible from its first works through to later projects such as the Recovery Project of Quinta do Vallado and the Archipelago Centro de Artes Contemporânea on the island of S. Miguel in the Azores, which was co-authored with JMR. The office remains a private architecture practice based in Portugal.

• 1994

  Menos é Mais is founded in Porto by Francisco Vieira de Campos and Cristina Guedes.

Architecture practice guided by the principle of doing more with less, balancing economy of means with material and emotional richness.

• Recovery Project of Quinta do Vallado

• Archipelago Centro de Artes Contemporânea (with JMR)

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