An architecture & interiors practice, working at the pace of the land.
Atelier Verde is a small studio in the river valley, designing houses, quiet civic spaces and the gardens that hold them together. We take on few projects, and give each one our full attention.
Begun in one room, above a stonemason’s yard.
Atelier Verde started with a single drawing board and a vineyard guest house no one else wanted to take on. Eighteen years later we are still small on purpose — fourteen people, six projects a year — because the kind of work we care about cannot be rushed.
We believe a building should feel like it has always been there: rooted in its ground, made of materials that belong to the place, and detailed so quietly that the architecture nearly steps out of the way. That conviction has shaped every commission since the first.
Four convictions that
shape every project.
No house style imposed — only a way of working we return to, drawing after drawing.
Site before form
Every project begins with the land, the light and the climate. We let context set the brief before a single line is drawn.
Material honesty
Stone, lime, oak and brass, left to read as themselves. We design for patina — buildings that age into something better.
Quiet detailing
The work that disappears is the work we labour over most — reveals, shadow gaps and joints resolved to the millimetre.
A long relationship
We stay close from first sketch to final handover, and often for years after. A house is never really finished.
A close studio of fourteen, led by hand.
Every commission is run by a principal from first sketch to handover — never passed down a chain.
Honoured, quietly, more than once.
We do not chase awards — but it means a great deal when the work is noticed by people we admire.
See the projectsEighteen years, in five chapters.
The studio is founded
Elena Verde opens a one-room atelier above a stonemason’s yard with a single commission — a vineyard guest house.
First public building
A lakeside reading pavilion brings the practice its first national feature and a growing list of private clients.
Interiors & landscape join
Tomás and Mateo formalise two disciplines that had quietly shaped the work from the beginning.
A studio of our own
We move into a restored mill on the river, daylit workshops below, model-making and material library above.
Eighteen, and unhurried
A team of fourteen, working on roughly six projects a year — small, slow and deliberate, by design.
If you are building something
worth doing slowly, let us talk.
We take on a handful of projects each year. Tell us about your site and your plans — we will write back within two days.