The
team
MiMo is led by Leonard Miller and Catherine Moronell. The practice was formed in Johannesburg in early 2019 after several years of informal collaboration.
Both Leonard and Catherine hold Masters degrees in Architecture and are professionally registered with SACAP. Having practised in Cape Town for several years prior to establishing their studio, Catherine and Leonard have distinct experience in both public buildings and private residences.
Leonard leads the design team, focusing on bigger picture conceptual thinking, setting the early design intention of a project and ensuring continuity in the language of project as the details are developed.
Catherine leads production, technical resolution and project administration, ensuring all aspects of the project are carefully co-ordinated and working closely with the project consultants and contractors.
About
MiMo is an architecture studio rooted in Johannesburg.
We work across cities, landscapes, and communities, helping our clients navigate constraints, ambitions and site-specific conditions. Our process begins with careful listening and a close reading of context, responding with clarity rather than excess.
We make it our personal responsibility to guide our clients through every stage of the process, ensuring they gain maximum value from their investment through considered architecture.
We work across cities, landscapes, and communities, helping our clients navigate constraints, ambitions and site-specific conditions. Our process begins with careful listening and a close reading of context, responding with clarity rather than excess.
We make it our personal responsibility to guide our clients through every stage of the process, ensuring they gain maximum value from their investment through considered architecture.
Our design
principles
We take a PROCESS DRIVEN approach to projects from concept to implementation. We undergo cycles of idea-testing and collaborate with a project team to develop lasting and clever solutions.
CONTEXT is important to us. We put time into researching the sphere our clients operate in. We analyse the physical site to find appropriate long-term spatial and material responses to the physical and organisational context as a whole.
There are FUNDAMENTALS in building design that we must get right in every project as a responsibility to our clients and to the wider community: north orientation, natural daylighting & ventilation, air quality & acoustics, water & energy efficiency and longevity.
We choose MATERIALS carefully. We are cognisant of maintenance and durability, as well as the embodied economic, social and environmental qualities of materials. Wherever we can, we aim to support the local manufacturing industry.
Our focus is on conceptualising appropriate responses in budget while delivering robust, beautiful environments.
CONTEXT is important to us. We put time into researching the sphere our clients operate in. We analyse the physical site to find appropriate long-term spatial and material responses to the physical and organisational context as a whole.
There are FUNDAMENTALS in building design that we must get right in every project as a responsibility to our clients and to the wider community: north orientation, natural daylighting & ventilation, air quality & acoustics, water & energy efficiency and longevity.
We choose MATERIALS carefully. We are cognisant of maintenance and durability, as well as the embodied economic, social and environmental qualities of materials. Wherever we can, we aim to support the local manufacturing industry.