Founded by Ecuadorian architect Felipe Escudero in 2012, EFE is a Quito-based innovative firm focusing on design, business tactics, and experiential innovation. We design urban strategies and architectural solutions by redefining challenging conditions as design opportunities. Collaborating with experts from all fields, we develop custom-made experiences for each one of our clients and end users.
The studio has been globally recognised for its pioneering work in a variety of projects. The Clover house that EFE designed and built in 2013 has been published by Dezeen and by Phaidon Atlas as an important work of architecture in South America. In 2016, the El Quinche House was published by Dwell for its original use of concrete and Mamallacta was presented by Designboom as a groundbreaking infrastructure surrounded by a volcanic andean landscape. In 2017 EFE's architectural work was presented in Arte Buenos Aires by No Lugar - Arte Contemporáneo as a young forward-thinking practice. That same year the studio exhibited work at the International Art Encounter in Guayaquil and in New York.
Estudio Felipe Escudero has been commissioned by clients of various backgrounds to design urban plans, architecture, renovations and artworks. Current on-going projects include a 16-storey corporate office tower in Quito, an eco-friendly hotel in Papallacta, an industrial warehouse in Pifo, a series of residential projects that blend with the vegetation in the valley of Cumbayá, and two houses in the coast of Ecuador.
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FELIPE ESCUDERO
Founder & Principal. Felipe Escudero started his career with graphic work that was exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts in London. He went on to making sculpture and furniture pieces for art galleries in Quito, to finally make larger scale architectural work for private clients in the mountains, the coast, and the rainforest of Ecuador. Escudero presented his ideas in the form of sculpture, drawings, architectural models, renders and photographs in a solo show at Ileana Viteri Art Gallery in Quito in 2016. Later that year he released Geográfica, an object-book about architecture and urban culture in the Andes.
Escudero received his master’s degree from the Architectural Association in London and his bachelor’s degree from Georgia Institute of Technology, after studying with a scholarship in Paris and Rome. As the founder and principal of EFE, Escudero leads design across various scales, incentivising participation from all collaborating parts.