Press

“Their buildings tend to set up an expectation and then quietly overturn it, which is how they arrive at a sense of weightlessness without ever announcing it.”

“Montavia belong to a new class of studio practising something closer to placemaking than building — a total design position that takes in structure, landscape, ecology and the social life of a site as one problem.”

“Three of my favourite projects of the year came from the same small studio. Deep research, an unusual amount of wit, and a willingness to leave things unfinished where finishing would have been the lesser choice.”