With twin political and economic crises in Brazil right now, it is hardly the best time to be hosting this summer’s Olympic Games.

Established in Rio de Janeiro’s northern neighborhood of Tijuca in 1973, the MOPI school was planning to open a facility in the rapidly growing Barra region to the west.

A vertical campus for a new urban university in Lima, Peru, rises to the occasion by fitting in.

After decades spent in thrall to the car, which brought it epic traffic jams across an ever-expanding urban sprawl, the Brazilian city of São Paulo has finally decided to try something different. Image courtesy Prefeitura de São Paulo The plan calls for an overhaul of the city's building code in order to accomodate taller mixed-use buildings. Fernando Haddad, the mayor of this metropolis of nearly

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. 

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.

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

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.