Micaela Benedicto is an architect, artist and musician living and working in Manila. She set up the design firm MB Architecture Studio in 2007. The work of MB Architecture Studio places emphasis on thorough planning and form finding to achieve a distinct spatial quality, informed by site conditions in the tropical context and the project clients’ individual stories.

Benedicto’s art practice involves the construction of three-dimensional forms and the manipulation of materials in order to explore ideas of impermanence, memory and loss. Working across sculpture and the photogram method of photography, she creates forms and images that possess transformative properties and aim to engage the viewer’s perception. Her architecture and music backgrounds inform the language of her work in visual art, through the use of geometric form, sequence, and pattern. Her objective is to explore in architectonic form the combination of truth and individual imagination by which one constructs their perception of a structure, object or image.

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