Amorphis is a full service architectural design studio located in Los Angeles and founded in 2009. The studio is engaged in speculative and building practices with an emphasis on a hands-on approach to experimentation. With services ranging from the design of objects and furniture to interiors, buildings, and landscapes, the studio limits the number of projects at a given time in order to produce deeply idiosyncratic works. This allows for an intimate working relationship with each client, where particular needs and desires are converted into a unique artifact.

As an advocate for a vitalist-materialist ethos in the production of architecture, Amorphis pursues a design agenda that oscillates within a matter/geometry complex. Traditionally conceived as separate from each other, the relationship between matter and geometry is understood as inextricably linked through technological and philosophical advances. Rather than privilege one over the other, Amorphis migrates through this complex in search of clear and strong alignments towards contemporary notions of materiality, visuality, and sensuality. This attitude promotes the physiological in architecture as well as the optical. We aim for the synthetic and strive to create a novel aesthetic regime that overtly delivers affective value while covertly delivering social and cultural value.

Ramiro Diaz-Granados is Principal of Amorphis and is a full-time design faculty member and the graduate portfolio coordinator at the Southern California Institute of Architecture.

Prior to founding Amorphis, he was co-principal of F-Lab with Heather Flood where they won and placed in several competitions, including the SCI-Arc “Conference Room Table” (built), L.A. Forum “Liner Competition” (second place), and Mercedes-Benz “National Trade Show Pavilion” (second place). Ramiro also worked for and collaborated with the award-winning firm Gnuform. During the years 1997-2002 he was co-principal of Arxis, a Los Angeles architectural practice, during which he designed and built several projects in Southern California and Mexico. He received his Bachelor of Architecture from SCI-Arc in 1996 and a Master of Architecture from UCLA in 2003 during which he was awarded the Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill Traveling Fellowship in Architecture.