APPARATA is an architecture, design, and research studio that creates convivial and adaptable spaces and objects. They work foundationally with how material, environmental, and social realms are enmeshed and interact, addressing questions around social bonds, repair, dematerialization, altering typologies, and agency. Their work has won awards including the RIBA Neave Brown Award for Housing and a Civic Trust Award, and has been nominated for the Stirling Prize, the European Collective Housing Award, and the Royal Academy Dorfman Prize. Their projects and writing have been widely disseminated, including in The Guardian, Süddeutsche Zeitung, the Whitechapel Gallery, and the Venice Architecture Biennale. APPARATA works internationally. The studio was founded by Astrid Smitham and Nicholas Lobo Brennan. Smitham is a German-British architect and guest professor at TU Vienna University. Lobo Brennan is a British-Brazilian designer and associate professor at Kingston School of Art, London.