Founded by Silvio Rech, a fourth-generation Italian–South African craftsman and his designer wife, Lesley Carstens, this small architecture practice based in Johannesburg since 2004, specializes in safari lodges, tropical island gateways, luxury hotels and high-end residential projects. The practice is renowned for its revolutionary approach to bush camp building, combining local materials and techniques with a clean modernist aesthetic, an approach that informs all their projects.