The studio is founded by Menno Trautwein and Isabela Ledo in 2015, when they opened the office in Rio de Janeiro. The Amsterdam office was opened in 2017.

Menno Trautwein (Amsterdam, 1971) graduated as Master in Architecture at the Academy of Architecture Amsterdam with a design research on a covered market as social economical catalyst for Amsterdam North. He worked as architect on all scale levels of housing design, designed a top end cinema theatre with innovative techniques at Bart Duvekot Architecten and worked on two massive projects at UNStudio. Currently he works on housing and office designs, mostly in collaboration with other independent designers. The assignments contain often combinations of existing and new parts, some of them including monuments. Great care for existing qualities and surroundings is always a starting point.

Isabela Ledo (Rio de Janeiro, 1982) holds a degree in Architecture and Urbanism from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (2008) and a Master's degree in Urbanism from Delft University of Technology (2013). As urbanist she has worked in Brazil and in the Netherlands in projects related to cycling mobility, as architect she is involved in small scale/interior design projects, and since 2020 she teaches urban planning part time at the Hogeschool Rotterdam.