Maria Paz de Moura Castro King

Maria Paz de Moura Castro King is the founder of Brazil-based firm Rizoma and Bay Area-based firm PMCKM. Between the two practices, she has designed and built in a diverse range of scales, contexts and typologies, including art pavilions, showrooms, restaurants, single family houses, bus stations, institutional buildings, among others. King’s primary interest lies in the relationship and possible intersections between art and architecture, particularly in the implications the built space has in the construction of the art experience. She has designed several art pavilions at contemporary art museum and botanical garden, Inhotim, for artists such as Anish Kapoor, Michael Heizer, Yayoi Kusama, Lygia Pape, Ernesto Neto, and Tunga.

King’s designs have been exhibited in Brazil, Germany, Italy, France, the United States, Argentina, and Denmark, in venues such as the Venice Biennale, the Deutsches Architekturmuseum, Yale University, the Carnegie Museum, among others. Her work has been published in the Financial Times Magazine, Wallpaper, Casabella, L’Architecture D’Aujurdhui, to name a few. King received several awards and was featured as one of the best architects in the world under 30 by Casabella Magazine. King is a member of the International Council of Madame Architect, helping to find and spread the stories of many talented women architects around the world, especially those from Latin America.

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