Matías Gatti Montevideo, Uruguay Oficina Matías Gatti
Matías Gatti is a Uruguayan architect, urban planner and former assistant professor. He is currently based in São Paulo, Brazil, from where he runs Oficina Matías Gatti a practice that works across the different scales of design, dealing with the political and social implications of the built environment of the contemporary city. Oficina Matías Gatti projects and initiatives have been recognized in several competitions in Europe, Asia and the Americas. Worth mentioning a 4th place in the international competition Skycity, held in China, an honorable mention in the Japanese competition Wikitopia with his project Make The Streets Green Again! and being finalist in the Beam Camp Project Competition
2016 with the project Parlapark. In the urban field, he recently won a 2nd place prize in the international ideas competition for the post pandemic city, organized by the CAF and Fundación Avina. With notions on human rights, food sovereignty and sustainable development, in 2019 he founded Softurb, an initiative of urban actions awarded at the Beyond Bauhaus Competition, held in Berlin and finalist in the uruguayan phase of the EWC 2021. Seeking to be a mediator between communities, local governments, corporations and the environment. As a Assitant professor he has co-organized architecture workshops both in Brazil and Uruguay, and he is currently an ambassador at Architecture in Development.