BRITO.RODRIGUEZ is an international atelier led by partners Inês Martins de Brito (pt) and Gil Rodriguez (tx), Intl. Assoc. AIA. Both are registered architects in Portugal and members of the Portuguese Order of Architects.
Established in Lisbon in 2008, the atelier expanded its practice across the Atlantic in 2021 and is now open in Texas, creating a dialogue between Portugal and Texas, and bringing together different cultural perspectives through a shared design sensibility.
The atelier’s work encompasses: houses, cultural buildings, public environments, rehabilitation, and remodels, with each project shaped by its particular landscape, culture, materiality, and program brief.
Our work is rooted in place.
We seek projects of clarity and restraint — grounded in concept, shaped with intention, and guided by the serenity and beauty of simplicity. We are interested in spaces that feel honest, quietly intimate, and deeply rooted in their surroundings.
Whether restoring a forgotten farmhouse, designing a home for slow living, rehabilitating an existing structure, or shaping spaces for culture and hospitality, we approach each project as a conversation — between building and landscape, memory and material, past and present.
In a noisy world, we design for clarity, tranquility, and silence.
Inês . Gil
Portugal . Texas
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Partners
Inês Martins de Brito (Lisbon, Portugal)
Registered Architect, Portugal
Professional Member, Portuguese Order of Architects
Education:
Architecture Degree (5 years)
Faculty of Architecture & Arts
Lusíada University
Lisbon, Portugal
Languages:
English . Portuguese . Spanish
Gil Rodriguez (Texas, USA)
Registered Architect, Portugal
Professional Member, Portuguese Order of Architects
Professional Member, Intl. Assoc. AIA
Education:
Bachelor of Architecture
The University of Texas at Austin
Austin, Texas, USA
Languages:
English . Portuguese . Spanish
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Coming from different cultural backgrounds, Inês and Gil met in Olot, Spain, while collaborating with RCR Arquitectes from 2002–04. RCR Arquitectes would later receive the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2017.
They subsequently moved to San Francisco, California, where they worked respectively with Sagan Piechota Architecture and Jim Jennings Architecture from 2004–08. Drawing upon these experiences in Europe and the United States, they established BRITO.RODRIGUEZ in Lisbon in 2008.
The atelier’s work has received international recognition through award-winning projects, exhibitions, lectures, workshops, and academic invitations across England, Italy, Mexico, Peru, Portugal, Scotland, Spain, and the United States.
BRITO.RODRIGUEZ was invited to participate in the American Institute of Architects ‘Center for Emerging Professionals Annual Exhibition’ in Washington, D.C.; the ‘20 Years of Portuguese Architecture’ exhibition in Lisbon; and the Wallpaper* Architects Directory 2012, which presented selected emerging architectural practices at SW1 Gallery in London.
Inês and Gil have lectured and exhibited at institutions including Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen, Scotland; Lusíada University in Lisbon; RCR Bunka Fundació in Olot, Spain; Sapienza Università di Roma in Italy; and the Universitat Politècnica de València in Spain.
From their Lisbon atelier, they founded and led the Art.Architecture Workshop, an international program bringing together participants from Austria, China, France, Italy, Japan, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Saudi Arabia, Spain, Thailand, Taiwan, Turkey, and the United States around architecture, art, landscape, and place.
In 2018, Inês and Gil joined the teaching staff of LAB-A, XI International Workshop of Architecture and Landscape at RCR Arquitectes in Olot, Spain.
Their practice continues to move between architecture, landscape, research, and education. In parallel to the atelier’s work, they teach architecture design studios at the Academy of Art University School of Architecture in San Francisco, California.
BRITO.RODRIGUEZ . Portugal + Texas
Collaborators
Aristokratis Charatsaris (gr) . Nuria Buiza (es) . Ana Marcelo Pires (pt) . Monika Sidorowicz (pl) . Malin Mohr (dk) . Nelson João (pt) . Sebastian Bech-Ravn (dk) . Sofia Coelho (pt) . Amilcar Nunes (pt) . Jesús J. Ruiz Alonso (es) . Dorota Tokarska (pl) . Karol Skalski (pl) . Daniela Rosa (pt) . Bárbara Constantino (pt) . José Luis Concha (es) . Maria Ortiz Masià (es) . Aleksandra Zajko (pl)