BUREAU with offices in Geneva and Lisbon is directed by architects Daniel Zamarbide and
Carine Pimenta and visual artist designer and art educator Galliane Zamarbide. The practice
operates at the intersection of architecture scenography design landscape design and
education. Founded in 2012 the firm focuses on building new and converting existing structures
interior design and furniture exhibition design inhabitable sculptures and temporary
pavilions. Their buildings and interventions feature spatial experiments unusual shapes and
perspectives and play with the time factor as well. BUREAU thus navigates across the
traditional boundaries of architecture design visual art architectural teaching and
cultural education. Short Stories is the first survey of the firm's work to date. Brief
texts-some narrative some descriptive and categorizing- illustrated with 360 images are
contributed by architects and researchers Fabrizio Gallanti Zaccharie Lachance André Tavares
and Marina Otero Verzier curator and critic Tirdad Zolghadr designer and curator Alexandra
Midal and Daniel Zamarbide. A conversation between designers and reserachers Amir Halabi and
Ava Violich-Kennedy Carine Pimenta and Daniel & Galiane Zamarbide as well as concise
information on the depicted buildings and projects by BUREAU round off this beautiful book.
