Firm Description

M u t u o was established by Jose Herrasti & Fernanda Oppermann in Los Angeles in 2014. Since then we have explored common grounds in our passion for design, in finding extraordinary uses for ordinary materials and methods, in discovering new perspectives, and in creating meaningful impact through architecture.

We believe in blurring the lines of our profession’s boundaries in ways that allow us to proactively create meaningful impact through architecture. M u t u o has been searching for different opportunities to foster collaborations and expand the traditional roles of the architecture firm into a more dynamic role with bigger influence on creating built environments and solving complex city challenges.

M u t u o aims to use design as catalyst for social impact. We believe that small, organic interventions have the potential to alleviate big social challenges. We welcome design collaborations with a diverse range of contributors: developers with similar interests in design, communities that we design for, artists, non-profit organizations, software engineers, out-of-the-box financial institutions… We often find that collaborations push the boundaries of architecture into the unexpected.