Reigo & Bauer. Architecture practice based in Toronto and founded by Merike and Stephen Bauer in 2005, Reigo & Bauer has developed a broad portfolio of contemporary and interior architecture that includes new construction and ambitious renovations, primarily focused on the residential sector.
The firm’s work represents a deeply informed evolution of vernacular tradition, often with sculptural massing that skillfully reinterprets classical forms. The results are open yet defined interior spaces that allow for an understanding of the continuity of space beyond.
Reigo & Bauer projects offer a unified yet highly varied aesthetic experience. Through restrained minimalism, design details are reduced to their most essential forms (simplifying rather than reducing), stripping away the unnecessary to reinforce what is meaningful. This quiet background leaves room for unexpected touches that reinforce rather than compete with each other; through the firm’s expert use of extended motifs and coordinated layers of detail, multiple design elements act as a single gesture.
