messina | rivas

messina | rivas is an architecture firm founded in São Paulo in 2016 by Rodrigo Messina (Brazil) and Francisco Rivas (Argentina). The studio engages across residential, interior and small-scale architectural commissions, exploring how context, local craft and material expression shape meaningful built work. Their design approach emphasises construction awareness, material reuse, and a narrative sensitivity to site and programme. Projects often foreground brick, timber and regional labour, seeking to align form, tectonics and place.