About us

Alec &  Franz are an artistic duo whose work inhabits the space between architecture, visual art and opera. Their collaboration brings together two distinct yet complementary practices: Alec’s precise graphite drawings and architectural research, and Franz’s multidisciplinary language spanning photography, art direction, stage design and filmmaking.

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Alec, trained in Architectural History at Oxford, explores the relationship between monument, space and perception through drawing. Franz, a graduate with honours in Set Design from the Brera Academy of Fine Arts in Milan, has developed an international career across theatre, opera, cinema and visual art, with a particular interest in transforming architecture into image and experience.

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Since 2019, their collaboration has evolved from the visual design of major opera productions—including "Castor et Pollux"- Warsaw Chamber Opera, for which they received the 2022 Jan Kiepura Award—into an independent artistic research. With Floating Architectural Spaces, architecture becomes fluid, suspended and theatrical: familiar monuments are deconstructed, reimagined and transformed into immersive visual spaces.

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Their ongoing dialogue extends into opera, film and contemporary art, where image, sound and architecture converge to question how we perceive and inhabit space. Their work is ultimately a meeting point between the tangible and the imaginary, between the permanence of architecture and the ephemeral nature of performance.