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Constructing Practice: Ramos Castellano Architects

1 January 2018

Eloisa Ramos and Moreno Castellano

Moreno Castellano and Eloisa Ramos, Co-Founders of Ramos Castellano Architects, talk about how being based in Cape Verde influences their work process and projects. Constructing Practice traces the narratives of young firms from around the globe, featuring the participants of a Columbia GSAPP symposium that took place on November 17, 2017, and expands the conversation to include many others to tell us how they do what they do. Hosted by GSAPP Professor Juan Herreros, principal of Estudio Herreros in Madrid.

Ramos Castellano Architects was founded in 2010, in São Vicente, Cape Verde. Castellano’s artwork, as his architecture, is entirely focused on exploring potentialities of several materials, using mixed media to shape at the same time matters and landscapes. In his subjects he explores social changes with sharpness and Irony. Ramos’ approach to architecture is direct, clear and simple. The shape of her buildings came from a clear and sensitive vision of the context, the material , the available technology in site.

“Here we have scarcity of material and we try to make it an opportunity to develop our creative side. Even [finding] a screw can be a problem. Here you have to be flexible, you have to improvise.”
—Eloisa Ramos

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