During the lecture, Barão and Hutter presented a personal selection of their work. Through the selected works, the architects discussed how work environment, strategy and work methodology can become just as important as the projects themselves. The talk analysed questions such as how a young studio understands and defines its post-university architecture practice and what circumstances and challenges influence their day-to-day work.

Ivo Barão, who was born in 1986 in the south of Portugal, studied architecture at the Universidade do Porto (FAUP) and worked for Gigon/Guyer in Zurich. Peter Hutter was born in 1984 in Switzerland and studied architecture at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich. Before founding his own studio with Ivo Barão, he worked in Peter Zumthor's architecture firm.

Barão-Hutter Atelier is an architecture and design workshop located in Zurich. Since 2010, Barão and Hutter have worked together in a space that was previously a butcher's shop and is now a multidisciplinary group studio. They currently share the space with photographers.

The workshop collaborates with a diverse group of artisans and specialists, including chefs, stage directors and gardeners. Thanks to this particular way of working, Barão-Hutter has acquired a nuanced approach to different tasks. The firm’s projects maintain a close relationship between urban contexts and their surrounding landscapes. They are sensitive to typical colours, sounds, light, topography, construction areas, vegetation, materials, shade and older architectural elements.

The workshop has been awarded several projects such as a bus station, a theatre, a public library, parks and other public spaces. They are currently working on a private home in the Rhine Valley and a public library in the centre of St. Gallen in Switzerland, both of which will be built in 2013.