It Is As Much About Empathy As It Is About Space
MoreThis is Mutuo: mutual, collaborative, creative.
Mutuo, a Spanish and Portuguese word, implies relationship and change, and in architecture the two go hand in hand as disparate ideas come together into a novel arrangement.
We are Mutuo: a Los Angeles-based architectural design firm with diverse cultural background. We share common grounds in our passion for design; in finding extraordinary uses for ordinary materials and methods; in discovering new perspectives; and in creating outstanding built environments.
Mutuo’s team: Irving Alvarez, Ana Antoni, Ilse Badillo, Isabel Driessen, Lucas de Guinea Echavarria, Mercedes Gandarias, Dema Hajmurad, Camille Herbin, Karl Kachele, Monica Lamela, Alen Al Mahdawi, Eduardo Martinez, Jonathan Meister, Alejandra Novelo, Zeineb Sellami, Sandra Villanueva, Fernanda Ximenez.
Jose Herrasti obtained a bachelor’s in architecture from Universidad Cristobal Colon, Veracruz, Mexico (1993), and a master’s in advanced architectural design from Columbia University, New York (1997). He was a professor at Calpoly Pomona (2015 to 2017) and was a John G. Williams Distinguished Visitor at the Fay Jones School of Architecture (2022). Jose was president of the LA Forum for Architecture and Urban Design (2022 and 2023). He currently teaches at USC, Los Angeles.
email: jose@thisismutuo.com
Fernanda Oppermann obtained a bachelor’s in architecture from Universidad Federal, Rio de Janeiro (2000), and a master’s in architecture from the University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles (2005). She was featured in the Beverly Willis Foundation’s Built by Women Exhibit (2020), and she received the WAN Female Social Change Award (2021). Fernanda was a John G. Williams Distinguished Visitor at the Fay Jones School of Architecture (2022). She was a professor at USC and she currently teaches at the UMN School of Design in Minnesota.
email: fe@thisismutuo.com