My name is Clarissa Strauss, I am an architect with over 30 years of experience, and I am passionate about my profession. It all started in 1989, when, after graduating in Architecture and Urbanism from PUC-Campinas, I started my career in a cultural heritage restoration laboratory and at the Augusto Romano Burelli architecture studio in the city of Udine, Italy – a country where I also I specialized in furniture design at the Politecnico di Milano. Back in Brazil, between 1993 and 2001, I worked as a coordinator for a large architectural office in São Paulo.
Finally, in 2001, I created Atelier Clarissa Strauss and started to design projects that increasingly became more and more inspiring and sustainable, always seeking to open the doors to living well. Although the intuitive Feng Shui art has always been present in my work, it was from 2020, after attending courses, studies, and immersions that I began to apply this ancient wisdom with consistency, technique, and more effectiveness in creations.
Today, I combine the Chinese discipline to my expertise in both residential and corporate projects, with aesthetic and functional balance, bringing more beauty, harmony and a positive impact to spaces and people's lives.
“I believe in an architecture connected with the whole. Inhabiting a space and feeling good in it is essential”
With years of experience, we have been recognized by some of the most important awards of architecture and interior design, such as Deca and Casa Cor.
Professional of the Year Award
Freedom of creation, excellence, innovation, sustainability, and health are essential pillars in the philosophy of my Atelier. To craft each project and solution, I work with a high degree of involvement and personalization with clients, always seeking harmony, beauty, timelessness, and well-being.
In addition to each project design, I participate in all the decision-making to ensure that the Atelier's values are reflected in every detail, including the use of ethical materials and finishes, whenever possible avoiding using materials of animal origin and making sure the project execution has lower or null levels of toxicity. After all, this is a good way to increase the energy of environments and transform the world into a better and fairer place.
• Architecture and Urbanism |Pontifical Catholic University of Campinas [1989]
• Furniture Design | Polytechnic of Milan | Italy [1991]
• Thetahealing | Curso Básico [2018]>
• Arte Textil 3D | Penland School of Crafts | USA [2018]>
• Meditação Mindfullness | Método Jon Kabat-Zinn | SP [2018]
• Pranic Therapy | Courses: Basic, Advanced, Psychotherapy, Higher Soul, and Crystals | Master Choa Kok Sui [2018 to 2021]
• Astrologia | Atma Institute [início 2019]
• Feng Shui Prânico | Master Choa Kok Sui [2020]
• Non Toxic & Cruelty Free Design | VeganDesign.Org | USA [2022]
• Casas Harmoniosas e Aplicação do Baguá | Silvana Occhialini [2022]
• Radiestesia Técnica | Escola Internacional de Radiestesia [2023]
• FengShui Níveis I, II e III| Instituto Brasileiro de Feng Shui [2023]
