https://www.architecturalrecord.com/rss/1990 en-us Occupying nearly half of the South American landmass and containing more than 50 percent of the continent's population, Brazil seems at first glance to be a market ripe for foreign architects. 

]]> 1405-learning-to-samba.asp Fri, 16 May 2014 12:00:00 -0400 https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/5857-learning-to-samba Iber' Carmargo Foundation Pritzker Prize' winning Portuguese architect 'lvaro Siza designed the Iber' Camargo Foundation in Porto Alegre, which opened in 2008. Iber' Carmargo Foundation Le Corbusier helped oversee the Ministry of Education and Health Building in Rio, designed by a team including L'cio Costa and Affonso Eduardo Reidy, completed in 1943. Iber' Carmargo Foundation Gensler has established itself in Brazil by working for tech companies such as Facebook and Intel, but it is also working on projects like a Wyndham hotel. Image courtesy Gensler Iber' Carmargo Foundation AECOM won the job to design the master plan for the 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Park in Rio de Janeiro.   Image courtesy AECOM Iber' Carmargo Foundation Davis Brody Bond worked with Levisky Arquitetos to turn a brownfield site in S'o Paulo into Victor Civita Plaza, where a wood deck sits above the contaminated soil.   Image courtesy Davis Brody Bond Iber' Carmargo Foundation Working for the developer WTorre, Arquitectonica designed WTorre Plaza and the JK Iguatemi shopping mall in S'o Paulo.   Image courtesy Daniel Ducci Iber' Carmargo Foundation ]Inspired by Roberto Burle Marx's beach promenade, with its wavy-patterned pavers, Diller Scofidio + Renfro designed the Museum of Image and Sound in Rio as a vertical boulevard.   Image courtesy Diller Scofidio + Renfro With the centenary of her birth this year, Italian-born Brazilian architect Lina Bo Bardi (1914–1992) is finally receiving the overdue international recognition she deserves.

]]> 1405-lina-bo-bardi.asp Fri, 16 May 2014 12:00:00 -0400 https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/5858-lina-bo-bardi-architect-for-the-ages Lina Bo Bardi Lina Bo Bardi in the living room of her São Paulo home, Casa de Vidro, in 1991.   Photo © Nelson Kon Lina Bo Bardi Art workshops in S'o Paulo's SESC Pompeia Leisure Center occupy former industrial sheds.   Photo © Nelson Kon Lina Bo Bardi In 1986, Bo Bardi transformed a 1920s-era steel-barrel factory into the SESC Pompeia Leisure Center in São Paulo.   Photo © Nelson Kon Lina Bo Bardi The Museu de Arte de São Paulo, completed in 1968, comprises a 245-foot-long span above a public plaza along Avenida Paulista.   Photo © Nelson Kon Lina Bo Bardi Bo Bardi completed Casa de Vidro—the architect’s first built work—for herself and her husband in 1952. Located in São Paulo’s Morumbi neighborhood, the house rests on 10 columns and surrounds a courtyard.   Photo © Nelson Kon Lina Bo Bardi The Italian manufacturer Arper reissued Bo Bardi’s 1951 Bowl Chair late last year.   Photo © Nelson Kon Lina Bo Bardi Bo Bardi, who refused to furnish with sofas, designed a wood and canvas foldable chair in 1948.   Photo © Nelson Kon Lina Bo Bardi Completed in 1958, the Valéria P. Cirell House in São Paulo (a short walk from Bo Bardi’s own home) consists of two connected volumes surrounded by verandas. Inside, a tree trunk acts as a beam to support a mezzanine level, accessible by a spiral stair.   Photo © Nelson Kon Lina Bo Bardi A cylindrical guesthouse, La Torracia, was completed in 1964.   Photo © Nelson Kon Lina Bo Bardi In 1987, the city of Salvador commissioned Bo Bardi to revitalize a cluster of derelict buildings along a hillside. She maintained some of the existing structures and adapted them to create the Ladeira da Misericórdia Housing and Commercial Complex. The development included the Coati Restaurant, with its ribbed concrete motif.   Photo © Nelson Kon Lina Bo Bardi Bo Bardi completed another project, Cerrado Church, in the state of Minas Gerais, in 1982. Rather than design a single structure, the architect created three separate volumes to house a chapel, clergy house, and community hall.   Photo © Zeuler R. M. DE A. Lima Pedro Rivera is a graduate of the architecture program at the Federal University in his native Rio de Janeiro.

]]> 1405-pedro-rivera.asp Fri, 16 May 2014 12:00:00 -0400 https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/5860-pedro-rivera Pedro Rivera Pedro Rivera is a graduate of the architecture program at the Federal University in his native Rio de Janeiro. In 2008, with colleague Pedro Évora, he founded RUA Arquitetos in Rio. He is also a director of Studio-X Rio, part of Columbia University’s network of laboratories dedicated to rethinking the future of cities.   Photo © Tiago Petrik Pedro Rivera A discussion at Rivera's Studio-X lab at Pra'a Tiradentes in downtown Rio.   Photo © Rua Arquitetos 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.   Photo © Photo © Rua Arquitetos 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. 

]]> 1405-spotlight-on-brazil.asp Fri, 16 May 2014 12:00:00 -0400 https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/5862-spotlight-on-brazil Brazil World Cup For the Museu de Arte do Rio, Bernardes & Jacobsen Arquitetura designed an undulating canopy to unite three buildings from different eras in downtown Rio de Janeiro.   Photo © Sergio Moraes/Reuters Brazil World Cup For the Museu de Arte do Rio, Bernardes & Jacobsen Arquitetura designed an undulating canopy to unite three buildings from different eras in downtown Rio de Janeiro.   Photo © Sergio Moraes/Reuters Brazil World Cup The Estadio Castel'o was renovated to host the FIFA World Cup 2014. Vigliecca & Associados overhauled the 1970s structure, which is located in Fortaleza.   Photo © Leonardo Finotti Brazil World Cup The Estadio Mineir'o was renovated to host the FIFA World Cup 2014. Working with a schematic design by GPA&A and GMP, BCMF Arquitetos adapted this 1960s-era stadium in Belo Horizonte.   Photo © Leonardo Finotti Brazil World Cup In downtown São Paulo, local firm Brasil Arquitetura surrounded a historic conservatory with a plaza and a set of board-formed concrete buildings that contain Praça das Artes, a performing-arts center.   Photo © Leonardo Finotti Brazil World Cup In downtown São Paulo, local firm Brasil Arquitetura surrounded a historic conservatory with a plaza and a set of board-formed concrete buildings that contain Praça das Artes, a performing-arts center.   Photo © Leonardo Finotti Brazil World Cup In downtown São Paulo, local firm Brasil Arquitetura surrounded a historic conservatory with a plaza and a set of board-formed concrete buildings that contain Praça das Artes, a performing-arts center.   Photo © Leonardo Finotti Brazil World Cup Last year, MMBB, in partnership with H+F Arquitetos, transformed a São Paulo favela into the Jardim Edite social housing. The complex, which houses more than 250 families, consists of three 17-story towers alongside two five-story blocks.   Photo © Leonardo Finotti Brazil World Cup The Brasiliana Library, designed by Rodrigo Mindlin Loeb Arquitetura and Eduardo Riesenkampf de Almeida for the University of São Paulo campus in 2013, houses one of the largest private book collections in the world.   Photo © Leonardo Finotti Brazil World Cup The Brasiliana Library, designed by Rodrigo Mindlin Loeb Arquitetura and Eduardo Riesenkampf de Almeida for the University of São Paulo campus in 2013, houses one of the largest private book collections in the world.   Photo © Leonardo Finotti Brazil World Cup The Brasiliana Library, designed by Rodrigo Mindlin Loeb Arquitetura and Eduardo Riesenkampf de Almeida for the University of São Paulo campus in 2013, houses one of the largest private book collections in the world.   Photo © Nelson Kon 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.

]]> 1405-angelo-bucci.asp Fri, 16 May 2014 12:00:00 -0400 https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/5852-angelo-bucci 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. 

]]> 1405-arthur-casas.asp Fri, 16 May 2014 12:00:00 -0400 https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/5853-arthur-casas Arthur Casas 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 multi­family, commercial, and institutional projects.   Photo © Ancar Barcalla Arthur Casas Mistral wine store in São Paulo takes its cues from undulating wood-lath walls.   Photo © Fernando Guerra Arthur Casas A private house, Casa Itu, abuts a small lake outside the city.   Photo © Fernando Guerra 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. 

]]> 1405-exercise-in-design.asp Fri, 16 May 2014 12:00:00 -0400 https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/5854-exercise-in-design Herzog & de Meuron Herzog & de Meuron shapes a welcome recreation center in a tight-knit favela community.   Photo © Iwan Baan Herzog & de Meuron Inside this gymnasium, integrated concrete seating that can accommodate up to 420 fans lines the perimeter of an indoor athletic field.   Photo © Iwan Baan Herzog & de Meuron Specially developed concrete block allows for permeable, see-through walls.   Photo © Iwan Baan Herzog & de Meuron A peaked roof of insulated corrugated aluminum spreads out above the entire structure. The panels overlap, letting in ocean breezes, but keeping rain out.   Photo © Iwan Baan Herzog & de Meuron Arena do Morro, a pro bono project by Herzog & de Meuron, occupies a wedge-shaped site between sand dunes and ocean in the M'e Luiza favela in Natal, Brazil.   Photo © Iwan Baan