Some images explain.
Others suggest.

Optima was born somewhere in between.
Between architectural discipline and visual intuition.
Between clarity and subtlety.
Between structure and mood.

Founded by Albert Mateu and Vincent Debonne,
Optima is an independent studio or perhaps a quiet atelier.
No walls, no borders.
Just two architects, working between Madrid and Toulouse,
composing images with the precision of designers
and the restraint of painters.

Our path has taken us through major studios and global projects.
But what we seek today is different.
Less polish.
More presence.

We’re not here to impress.
We’re here to reveal
what a space carries,
before it is built.
A tension.
A stillness.
A light.

We work with those who see imagery not as decoration,
but as part of the thinking.