Transversality. There is no better concept to describe Fernanda Marques’s current creative mood. Moving comfortably through architecture, design and art - she is currently on the Tate Latin America Acquisitions Committee - the architect is not just interested in creating buildings, interiors or products, but rather in exploring boundaries, and more so, in proposing confluences.

A very real example of such ability to articulate, the Synapsis range she has just developed for Solarium, a concrete tile manufacturer, enables her to navigate seamlessly through Ligia Clark’s constructivism; flirt with the modernity of Athos Bulcão and still remain faithful to its explicit functionality, expertly expressed by one of its key designers, France’s Pierre Paulin.