RENATO D'ETTORRE ARCHITECTS

SYDNEY based Architectural + Interior Design practice - High End multi disciplinary Architectural and Interior Design studio under the guidance of Renato D'Ettorre. Robust contemporary architecture with understated elegance. Working nationally and internationally, the studio enjoys responding to a range of briefs: private dwellings, heritage environments and detailed bespoke work for hospitality and interiors for these projects. As a practice we draw inspiration and references from areas as wide as possible. We believe in the power of architecture; in which we can take shelter, purify the mind, find peace and emerge enlightened and strengthened by the experience. Once hidden forces of the site are discovered and the design direction becomes clear, the architecture has the potential to achieve a meaningful presence. Our objective is to create an architecture that is evocative, attempts a sense of place and beauty, satisfies the human need for textural and tactile expressions, calms or stimulates the senses with light and shade, space and materiality, whilst reducing complexity to achieve clarity and simplicity, emphasising the ephemeral elements that good architecture can generate. Renato was in central Italy and moved to Australia with his family in the 1960's, studying architecture at the University of Technology, Sydney. In 1984 Renato lived in Sardinia investigating many architectural sites around the Mediterranean islands. He later worked for Pier Luigi Nervi and Paolo Portoghesi in Rome and Harry Seidler and Romaldo Giurgola in Sydney. Renato started his practice in 1990 after a commission for a house in South Coogee. The house, with a magnificent site by the sea, inspired Renato to take the opportunity to forge a personal path within the plurality of the modern architectural milieu. The personal path chosen has manifested itself not only in his design values, but also in the practice of his architecture; an intuitive way of working in which projects are allowed to develop through continual revision and modification, working through the endless design possibilities in architecture with a desire to leave enduring buildings for the future.