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Guto Requena is a Brazilian architect and designer (Sorocaba, Brazil, November 27, 1979) graduated in Architecture & Urbanism from the São Carlos Engineering School, a faculty of the University of São Paulo in 1999.

Career
Guto Requena is the Creative Director of the Estudio Guto Requena which acts in all areas where design is of the essence, in its most varied scales: objects, interiors, architecture and cities.

He founded Estudio Guto Requena in 2008 and has ever since acted as a design consultant, writer and professor in addition to developing interior architecture, interactive installations and product design.

Academics
Requena is representative of a new generation of architects and designers involved in the discussion of interactivity and its effects on architecture and design; his work focuses in new digital technologies, cyberculture, hybrid realities, new lifestyles, affective memory and Brazilian culture.

His interest in this field led him to work during nine years as an integrant of the research group “NOMADS.usp – Center of Interactive Living Studies of the University of São Paulo”, which in its turn led him to a Master’s degree at the University of São Paulo and respective dissertation Hybrid Habitation: Interactivity and Experience in the Cyberculture Era (2007).

He taught project design at Panamericana – School of Arts and Design – and at IED – European Institute of Design, in Sao Paulo – at both graduation and master levels.

Awards

 * ArchDaily's Building of the Year Award 2014 - Interior Architecture - Walmart São Paulo


 * BID 2012 – Bienal Ibero Americana de Design, as the best Space Design in Brazil for the Exhibition "Roteiro Musical de São Paulo".


 * “Best in Architecture Brazil - 2010” for nightclub HOT HOT, under category “Bars & Nightclubs”


 * “Young Brazilian Awards” as recognition for lecturing on 70 workshops all over the country.

Media
Since 2012 Guto has a design column at newspaper Folha de São Paulo where he writes about design, architecture and urbanism.

His academic achievements and activity as a teacher in reputed design schools made him a national reference in the subject of contemporary architecture and design in the specialized media. He is creator, screenwriter and host of a show on design in cable/satellite Brazilian television channel GNT called Nos Trinques; its first season aired from March to December in 2011.

In 2012 and 2013 Guto developed design web series for the same channel, recorded in Milan, Paris, Amsterdam and London(www.youtube.com/gutorequena).

Selected projects
Some of his best-known works are the São Paulo nightclub Hot Hot (2009), the “Play” collection for Bertolucci (2011), the interactive space for “Agência D3” (2011).

In 2012 Guto was selected by Google to develop the project for their brazilian headquarter in São Paulo.

Exhibitions
Guto exhibited at:


 * Design Miami,
 * Spazio Rossana Orlandi in Milan,
 * Design Days Dubai,
 * Santiago Bienal of Design in Chile,
 * Brazilian Bienal of Design in Belo Horizonte,
 * Mint Shop during London Design Festival
 * Bienal Ibero Americana of Design in Madrid
 * Design Week Mexico 2013.