ARQBR Arquitetura e Urbanismo   Brazil   This church built in concrete is located on the edge of EPIA (Park Road of Industry and Supply), a major component of the radio-centric thoroughfare system implemented to support the architect Lucio Costa’s Pilot Project. EPIA later became an express

Andrade Morettin Arquitetos   Brazil   Located on the north coast of São Paulo, this 240-square-meter summer house stands a few meters from the sea, hidden amid a lush forest. The neutral volume opens to the outdoors with sliding doors, and lets daylight in through panels of polycarbonate

Atelier Daniel Flórez   Brazil   Conceptually the house is like an inverted ship, with a succession of structural elements of laminated timber fixed to a visible indoor concrete gutter. On Sagi Beach (Baía Formosa, Brazil), the Gutter House project creates twin homes for two friends

Atelier Daniel Flórez   Brazil   Paradise has taken many forms over the course of time, but of late tends to be associated with the picture of white-sand beaches and lush forests that look like they have never been stepped on. This is a cliché exploited by the hotel industry, and al

Studio MK27   Brazil   Atop a 46-meter tall cliff, Casa Vista tries to frame the landscape as a wide-angle lens camera. Its horizontal proportions are defined by the extrusion of the elemental section of a cabin, which generates a 60-meter-long structure, with two volumes

MMBB Ben-Avid JPG.ARQ   United Arab Emirates   A basin of water and a membrane of stretched textile in a powerful metal framework manage to create an atmosphere that draws attention to the Amazon jungle’s water resources.

Firma Arquitetura Oficina Aberta   Brazil   Designed by the Brazilian studios Firma Arquitectura and Oficina Aberta, this simple volume was annexed to a preexisting preschool to accommodate extracurricular activities. Translucent sliding doors open up to the exterior. The construction uses ind

Diller Scofidio + Renfro   Brazil   The architecture of the Museum of Image and Sound looks to Copacabana Beach for inspiration: its coastline, its wraparound wall, its hills, and its distinctive seaside promenade designed by Roberto Burle Marx, which captures the essence of the place:

Kengo Kuma   Brazil   Opened in the year 2017, the Japan House in São Paulo is the first example developed within the ‘Japan House’ initiative, developed by the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs to promote various aspects of Japanese culture in the world. The building

Paulo Mendes da Rocha MMBB   Brazil   This collaboration between the Brazilian teams of Paulo Mendes da Rocha and MMBB Arquitetos transforms the former Mesbla department store in downtown São Paulo into a complex combining educational, artistic, sports, health, and leisure activities, su

b720 Fermín Vázquez Arquitectos   Brazil   The envelope of ceramic pieces rendered in a variety of colors does much to give the building a personality of its own in the urban fabric, while distinguishing each apartment unit. The 25-floor tower is located in Itaim Bibi, a São Paulo neighborhoo

Ipiña + Nieto Ossa Arquitectura   Chile   The project for the new embassy of Brazil in Santiago, Chile restores a 19th-century palace, adds buildings to the complex, and unifies them by means of a permeable skin of pinewood.

Studio Arthur Casas   Brazil   The facade of the hotel is covered with a series of perforated pieces or polycarbonate resin caps (cobogós) that are fire and sun resistant, produced by injection of the material under pressure in steel molds, and fixed in folding frames... [+]

MAPA Architects   Brazil   Minimod Cutuçaba is a house built on the logic of plug & play prefabrication. It is formed by cubic modules – measuring 3 x 3 x 3 meters – prepared principally with wood, combinable in different ways to topographically, visually, and environmentally

Bernardes Arquitetura   Brazil   The facade consists of a series of different layers that filter light and sound. The outermost skin, with a green buffer and special soundproof windows placed behind it, is a lattice of perforated aluminum that covers the upper working floors... [+]

MAPA   Brazil   Minimod Cutuçaba is a house built on the logic of plug & play prefabrication. It is formed by cubic modules – measuring 3 x 3 x 3 meters – prepared principally with wood, combinable in different ways to topographically, visually, and environmenta

Aleph Zero Rosenbaum Gustavo Utrabo Pedro Duschenes   Brazil   Raised on the initiative of the Fundaçao Bradesco in 1973 and located in the rural zone of Formoso de Araguaia, in one of Brazil’s central regions, Fazenda Canuanã is a small cluster of buildings that serves as a boarding school, and within it, the B

Herzog & de Meuron   Brazil   Mãe Luiza is not a typical Favela – its identity and character have been formed both by the unique setting and the creativity of the people of this strong community. Mãe Luiza is nestled between the protected natural zone of the dunes of Natal and th

Studio MK27   Brazil   As if it were a hut for postmodern beaux sauvages, the house appears in the clearing of a rainforest in the Brazil’s São Paulo region. But the mountainous topography and the dense vegetation, which could have inspired easy metaphors, do not determine

Jean Nouvel   Brazil   A 93-meter high residential tower, with a hotel and apartments, becomes a vertical extension of the adjoining Matarazzo park; a series of terraces form luxuriant green surfaces, planted with the same species that grow in the park.  Designed as a tree

Álvaro Siza   Brazil   The Iberê Camargo Foundation Museum goes up right by Guaíba River, on the site of an old quarry donated by the City of Porto Alegre. The Foundation Museum displays the work of the prolific Brazilian painter Iberê Camargo, deceased in 1994, and also d

MAAM MAPA Studio Paralelo   Brazil   In spite of being an artificial and prefabricated object, Minimod is designed to become part of the context in a sensitive and respectful way; its simple form and its openings make the experiential element prevail over the uniqueness of the artifact.

ETH Zürich MAS Urban Design Rua Arquitetos: Évora + Rivera   Brazil   The Varanda Products catalogue offers a range of solutions inspired in the puxadinhos, aggregates of recycled materials superposed to the existing structures, which Rio locals have used over the years to colonize their environment.  Presented wi

Luis Fernández-Galiano   In a new epiphany of unease, a crowd chose a symbolic building as a frame for its protest. On 6 January 2021, Trump supporters stormed into the United States Capitol to try to overturn the election of Biden; and on 8 January 2023, Bolsonaro followers

1937-2021 Member of a Jewish family of Polish immigrants, Jaime Lerner was born in Curitiba in 1937 and trained as an architect at the Federal University of Paraná. As so many Brazilian architects of his generation, he was marked by the social situat

1928-2021 The Brazilian Paulo Mendes da Rocha, perhaps one of the last great masters of the second half of the 20th century, passed away in São Paulo on 29 May at 92. Born in Vitória, in the southeast of Brazil, Mendes da Rocha studied architecture a

Juegos Olímpicos de Río de Janeiro

The mediatic opening and closing ceremonies (including the usual fireworks, which in this case could be watched from favelas as well) did not manage to cover up what truly distinguished the Rio de Janeiro Games from previous Olympics: the absence of

Accompanied by Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff and the entire retinue that the consecration of a building slated to symbolize the new Rio de Janeiro deserves, the Spanish architect-engineer Santiago Calatrava inaugurated the Museum of Tomorrow. Tru

Guilherme Wisnik   A founder of the Paulista School, Vilanova Artigas built works characterized by the combination of structural power and social commitment.

Guilherme Wisnik   As is generally true for the best architecture produced in São Paulo, Lina Bo Bardi’s oeuvre takes flight at a moment in time when Brazilian architecture ceased to be focused on by other countries. This turning point occurred in the 1960s after the n

Olivia de Oliveira   Ignored for years on end and completely absent from the official manuals of the history of architecture, Lina Bo Bardi’s work remained unknown outside Brazil until her death in 1992. In recent years, however, she has been cited more frequently in var

Renato Anelli   Lina Bo Bardi had the rare opportunity to work in fields other than architecture. Landscaping, furniture design, set design, illustration, or graphic design broaden the context in which most Brazilian architects are situated. Though her built works a

Zeuler R. Lima   Lina Bo Bardi was an unusual architect and she produced inimitable work. She was born in Rome in 1914 and passed away in São Paulo in 1992. In Brazil, her adopted country, recognition to her work did not happen until the last years of her life. Inter

Luis Fernández-Galiano   The centenary of Lina Bo Bardi has rekindled the fervor for her figure. The critic Rowan Moore considers the Italian-Brazilian “the most underrated architect of the twentieth century”; however, she who Martin Filler describes as “the Anna Magnani of

Carlos Eduardo Comas   Rio de Janeiro was a port of call on Le Corbusier’s way to Argentina in October 1929, and the Swiss architect then likened its urbanization to “filling the tub of the Danaids.” The scenery was not alpine; nonetheless, he found it “violent and sublime

Guilherme Wisnik   Born a hundred years ago, Bo Bardi found in the cultural life of Brazil the humus of an at once festive and socially committed architecture.

Fernando Serapiao   A disciple of Oscar Niemeyer, Lelé concentrated his social commitment on the study and development of construction types and systems.

With the various grandstands put in place at the last minute, construction workers still gathering and packing up their tools, and lingering echoes of the all-year demonstrations against the US$15 billion investment on an event that a large number of

Luis Fernández-Galiano   A specter haunts the world: the rebellion of the middle classes. In the latest episode, the cities of Brazil and Turkey have been the scene of an uprising against political and economic elites by young people summoned through social networks and prov

El País   Luis Fernández-Galiano   A specter haunts the world: the rebellion of the middle classes. In the latest episode, the cities of Brazil and Turkey have been the scene of an uprising against political and economic elites by young people summoned through social networks and prov

José María García del Monte   The first impression the work of Paulo Mendes da Rocha leaves on an architect trained in Europe is not hard to remember, and could be summed up in the following question: “But, how does he manage to build that?” The first surprise is the structural

Guilherme Wisnik   The oeuvre of Paulo Mendes da Rocha can be assessed through three buildings. The projects, separated by a thirty-year interval, all won public competitions. This is the case of the Paulistano Athletic Club Gymnasium (1958), in São Paulo; the Brazilia

Roberto Segre   Marked by fruitful contradictions, the work of the longest-living master of the Modern Movement transcended architecture to become a symbol of Brazilian culture.

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Paulo Mendes da Rocha is a slight man who has built colossal works. Delicate and brutal, his architecture expresses with bold refinement the convictions and dreams of the generation that was young during the turbulent sixties of the past century. Att

El 5 de diciembre, diez días antes de cumplir 105 años, y seis meses después del fallecimiento de su hija octogenaria, ha muerto en Río de Janeiro Oscar Niemeyer. Con una obra sensual que conjuga la racionalidad de las formas puras y la plasticidad d

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