Didier Fiúza Faustino, Marie-Hélee Fabre. Bureau des Mésarchitecture

Bureau des Mésarchitecture. Architecture practice founded in 2002 by artist-architect Didier Fiúza Faustino and architect Pascal Mazoyer based in Paris, France. Since 2018, the studio has an office in Lisbon, Portugal.

Today, the studio is co-led by Marie-Hélee Fabre (Principal) and Didier Fiúza Faustino (Creative Director), and includes Pascal Mazoyer (Project Manager), Sónia Pinto Sousa and André Antunes (Project Managers).

Working at the crossroads of art and architecture, the practice is multi-faceted, ranging from installation to experimentation, from the creation of subversive visual artworks to multi sensorial spaces. Invested in the relationship between body and space, their projects are characterised by a critical perspective and an ability to offer new experiences to the individual and collective body. Their projects operate at multiple scales: curatorial and editorial projects, interventions in public space, mobile architectures, as well as interior designs and buildings, including French artist Jean-Luc Moulène’s studio.

Didier Fiúza Faustino is a French - Portuguese conceptual artist and architect, working on the relationship between body and space. At the crossroad of art and architecture, his practice is multi-faceted, ranging from installation to experimentation, from the creation of subversive visual art works to multi-sensorial spaces. His projects are characterized by their critical perspective and their ability to offer new experiences to the individual and collective body.

With Mésarchitecture (2002) in Paris and his office in Lisbon (2018), he is developing projects of multiple scales: interventions in public space, mobile architectures, as well as interior designs and buildings, among which French artist Jean-Luc Moulène’s studio.

Several projects and works are part of the collection of major institutions: MoMA, Fondation Calouste Gulbenkian, Serralves Foundation, Fonds National d’Art Contemporain, Musée National d’Art Moderne / Centre Georges Pompidou, MAXXI, MAAT, FRACs Centre - Val de Loire et Grand Large - Hauts de France.

Marie-Hélène Fabre, is trained as an architect and urban planner. Fabre has led teaching and research activities in urban planning and on the city of Seoul, South Korea in the late 1990s and early 2000s, at the Institut Français d’Urbanisme. From 2006 to 2014, she was the Head of studies at the Ecole Spéciale d’Architecture in Paris. 

Since 2022, Marie-Hélène Fabre is a research by practice PhD candidate at the Ecole nationale supérieure d’architecture de Versailles, France, under the supervision of Susanne Stacher (architect) and Christian Ruby (philosopher). For her research, she explores the studio’s practice in relation to creative diversion strategies.