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Pedro Rivera

A proposal for the headquarters of nonprofit organization Jongo Da Serrinha will transform a warehouse into an education and cultural center in the Morro da Serrinha favela.

Tom Hennigan

May 16, 2014

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Pedro Rivera is a graduate of the architecture program at the Federal University in his native Rio de Janeiro.

Rodrigo Mindlin Loeb

On building the Basiliana Library

Tom Hennigan

May 16, 2014

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Rodrigo Mindlin Loeb, with his former professor Eduardo Riesenkampf de Almeida, designed the Brasiliana Library at the University of São Paulo, which houses the collection of rare books on Brazilian history and culture donated by Loeb's grandparents Guita and José Mindlin.

Spotlight on Brazil

With the World Cup just weeks away, there have been many exciting developments but, overall, the results of Brazil’s makeover have been mixed.

Tom Hennigan

May 16, 2014

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These are exciting times in Brazil. Next month, the country will host a party of global proportions when 12 of its cities stage soccer's World Cup.

Suzanne Stephens

May 16, 2014

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Julia Morgan's impressive legacy of architectural achievements from her 45-year practice in San Francisco has won her the AIA Gold Medal for 2014. Photo © Richard Barnes Studies in Paris would lead Julia Morgan to the playful Bear House at Wyntoon in California (1933). Julia Morgan The well-publicized announcement that Julia Morgan (1872–1957) is the recipient of the American Institute of Architects' Gold Medal for 2014—the first woman to receive the honor—naturally raises questions about why it took so long. She died 57 years ago. (We also might wonder about the logic of posthumous Gold Medals—but more about that later.)

Angelo Bucci

On creating citizenship

Tom Hennigan

May 16, 2014

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Angelo Bucci has run the SPBR office in S'o Paulo since 2003. He became one of the most prominent members of the young generation of architects to emerge following the end of Brazil's military dictatorship after he won, along with lvaro Puntoni and Jos Oswaldo Vilela's public competition to design the Brazil pavilion at the 1992 Seville Expo, one of the first major civic projects following the return of democracy. For political reasons, the pavilion was not built.

Arthur Casas

On trends in residential design

Tom Hennigan

May 16, 2014

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Arthur Casas is a graduate of the renowned architectural program at Mackenzie University in São Paulo and an heir to the city's Modernist traditions. While he is one of Brazil's most sought-after residential designers, his work also includes larger multi'family, commercial, and institutional projects.

Exercise in Design

Herzog & de Meuron shapes a welcome recreation center in a tight-knit favela community.

Anna Fixsen

May 16, 2014

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Tucked between lushly vegetated sand dunes and the Atlantic Ocean, the Mãe Luiza favela spills out from the fringes of Natal, a city of 800,000 people in northeastern Brazil.

Snapshot: Tree Snake Houses

Anna Fixsen

April 16, 2014

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After winning a competition to revitalize Pedras Salgadas Park, a 1920s-era hot springs resort in northern Portugal, architect Tiago Rebelo de Andrade and his father, Luis, decided to create a grown-up take on a typical father-son structure: the tree house.

The Houses of Louis Kahn

Susan G. Solomon

April 16, 2014

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By George H. Marcus and William Whitaker. Yale University Press, 2013, 269 pages, $65. A Prism for Viewing a Master While reading this outstanding book, I kept remembering the Bill Clinton 1992 election campaign that was defined by the phrase “It's the economy, stupid.” I had to keep myself from shouting, “It's the houses, stupid!” Marcus and Whitaker have not only directed superb scholarship to the study of Kahn's houses—both built and unbuilt—but have shown that the houses can be a lens on a broader understanding of Kahn's philosophy, his interpretation of Modernism, and his appreciation of the vernacular. They

Endangered Species

Sarah Amelar

April 16, 2014

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April 2014 Under-appreciated and usually smaller than today's McMansions, modern houses from the 20th century are disappearing from the architectural ecosystem. Some champions, though, are finding ways to save them. Photo © Rollin R. LaFrance/Courtesy Mitchell|Giurgola Architects Romaldo Giurgola's 1970 Dayton Residence in Wayzata, Minnesota, was purchased for a reported $10 million in 2012. The new owners plan to build a larger alternative, though they are considering options other than demolition, including moving the Giurgola house off-site. Last summer, the Cape Cod Modern House Trust (CCMHT) finished restoring the Hatch Cottage, designed by Jack Hall in 1960. Owned by the

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