Founded in 2016 by Valentine Guichardaz-Versini, Rita is an architecture studio that believes architecture can address many of the challenges facing society. This ambition was recognised in 2017, when the studio received the Prix de la Première Œuvre (First Project Award) for an emergency accommodation centre built in Ivry-sur-Seine (94), using whatever resources were available and bringing together the combined energies of a committed client and residents determined to find dignified and resourceful solutions.
This pioneering project laid the foundations for an architectural practice that seeks to address the complex challenges of our time with both rigour and empathy, striving to reconcile the quality of everyday use with the beauty of design.
For Rita, AHA has created a new identity, a new logo and a new website, bringing together a diverse collection of graphic documents and photographs. The website reflects the rigour underpinning Rita’s flexible, lived-in architectural typologies, while also demonstrating that reality goes beyond the drawings — drawings that allow for every kind of dynamic and almost every colour.