Matheus Diniz is an award-wining architect praised for his spatial sensibility and his drive to improve the urban fabric with his projects. He worked in internationally renowned architecture studios in Brazil, Switzerland and Iceland before founding in 2012 his own studio, MDAD, where he develops projects in several scales. His projects were featured in several publications and he was unanimously awarded with the grand prize for the 57th Annual Architects Awards of the Brazilian Institute of Architects – Rio de Janeiro. He was selected to present two of his projects in the 27th World Congress of Architects that took place in Rio de Janeiro in 2021.