01 / Manifest

FORM
FOLLOWS
FUNCTION

rational.group is a collective of architects, engineers, and theorists translating Bauhaus discipline into the systems of the next century. We build with primaries: shape, color, intention.

02.A / Doctrine
02

A GEOMETRIC
DOCTRINE.

Three primaries. Three shapes. A finite vocabulary that produces infinite arrangements. Every page, every product, every proposal we issue is composed from this set.

Circle / Blue

CIRCLE
cosmos · orbit · system

Triangle / Yellow

TRIANGLE
vector · tension · rise

Square / Red

SQUARE
ground · stability · field

03 / Practices

FIVE WORKING
PRACTICES.

i.

SYSTEMS
ARCHITECTURE

Reducing organisational complexity into nested rectangles of responsibility.

ii.

TYPOGRAPHIC
POLICY

Codifying voice through geometric letterforms that refuse decoration.

iii.

COMPOSITIONAL
RESEARCH

Studying how rectangles, ratios, and primaries persuade.

iv.

INDUSTRIAL
EDITION

Finite-run objects engineered with the same rigour as our systems.

v.

PEDAGOGICAL
STUDIO

A teaching cell that trains the next working collective.

04 / Method

A METHOD
OF FOUR
MOVEMENTS.

Each engagement is a composition. We walk the working group through four movements, each a different bento arrangement of attention.

m.01

REDUCE

Strip the brief to its primary geometry.

m.02

RATIO

Establish proportions before any line is drawn.

m.03

RENDER

Build the composition in primaries. Refuse ornament.

m.04

RELEASE

Hand the system to the working collective. Sign in red.

05 / Collective

A WORKING
COLLECTIVE.

We sign every release in plural. The voice you read is not a person; it is a method. Below: the cells that make the body.

cell / a

ATELIER
NORD

Architecture & Systems

Hamburg / Rotterdam

cell / b

STUDIO
HEX

Type & Editorial

Lisbon / Berlin

cell / c

GROUP
PRIMARY

Industrial Edition

Milan / Tokyo

06 / Contact

SIGN IN
RED.

Bring us a brief. We will return a composition. Working groups, institutions, and editions enquire below.

  • studio studio (at) rational.group
  • edition edition (at) rational.group
  • press press (at) rational.group