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Centro de Invidentes y Débiles Visuales, Mexico City by Taller de Arquitectura Mauricio RochaSubscription
This case study is part of the essay Building for the blind, featured in AR April 2020 on Darkness. Click here to read the full article
Biblioteca para Ciegos y Débiles Visuales, Ciudadela, Mexico City by Taller de Arquitectura Mauricio Rocha + Gabriela CarrilloSubscription
This case study is part of the essay Building for the blind, featured in AR April 2020 on Darkness. Click here to read the full article
Building for the blindSubscription
Architecture for the visually impaired by Taller de Arquitectura Mauricio Rocha + Gabriela Carrillo forces us to ‘see’ in new ways
Setting the record straight: Galería OMR in Mexico City by Max von Werz, Mateo Riestra and José Arnaud-BelloSubscription
New into Old 2019 Commended: Deploying a light-touch approach, three young architects have revamped the Sala Margolin in Mexico City into the new Galería OMR
Pillar of the community: Comunal Taller de Arquitectura, MexicoSubscription
By sharing the authorship of their architecture with the local people with whom they work in rural Mexico, Comunal are challenging the authority of the architect
Seeds of change: Estudio MMX, MexicoSubscription
Estudio MMX have been shortlisted for the AR Emerging Architecture awards 2019. View the shortlist here
Spinal tap: Cauce, ColombiaSubscription
Sebastián Monsalve is instrumental in the transformation of Medellín’s central spine into a vast public realm
Troubles in paradise: the country of the eternal futureSubscription
Brazil drew the hearts of such luminaries as Stefan Zweig and Lina Bo Bardi, who sought promise in its eternal future
Reel life: Brazilian realities reflected in cinemaSubscription
From the home to the favela to the city at large, Brazilian cinema scrutinises social injustice and tackles universal themes
Rebels with a cause: insurgent practices in São Paulo’s abandoned spacesSubscription
In their fight against the displacement of local communities, activists are appropriating central São Paulo’s abandoned spaces
Cais do Sertão museum, Recife, Brazil, by Brasil ArquiteturaSubscription
Brasil Arquitetura’s Museu Cais do Sertão on the waterfront of Recife is a bold attempt to reverse the decline and obsolescence that has afflicted the city’s port area in recent decades
Outrage: the Amazon rainforest under threatSubscription
Amazonian tribes are at risk and the planet lies in the balance
Boarding planes: student housing, Fazenda Canuanã, Formoso do Araguaia, Brazil by Aleph Zero + RosenbaumSubscription
In a country renowned for its concrete masters, Rosenbaum and Aleph Zero contribute two large timber dormitories to a boarding school in remote ‘deep Brazil’
Instituto Moreira Salles by Andrade Morettin, 2017Subscription
A unique, phenomenally transparent cultural centre on São Paulo’s Avenida Paulista
Japan House by Kengo Kuma and FGMF, São Paulo, BrazilSubscription
A sort of Japanese cultural embassy in Brazil, Japan House features an unusual brise-soleil
SESC Avenida Paulista by Königsberger Vannucchi, São Paulo, BrazilSubscription
The repetitive but versatile floorplan of this 17 storey building accomodates many uses and provides the highest public view of Avenida Paulista
Electric avenue: Avenida Paulista as a microcosm of urban BrazilSubscription
Both agora and acropolis, the Avenida Paulista in São Paulo is a melting pot for all sectors of society
Social climber: SESC 24 de Maio cultural centre in São Paulo, Brazil by Paulo Mendes da Rocha and MMBB ArquitetosSubscription
A modern-day social condenser, Paulo Mendes da Rocha and MMBB’s SESC 24 de Maio is a utopian vision in an increasingly dystopian political climate
Bossa nova beat: the symbiosis between Brazilian architecture and musicSubscription
Modernism nurtured the rich symbiosis between Brazilian architecture and music
Oscar Niemeyer (1907-2012)Subscription
At points across his long career an uncomfortable, arguably luxurious, figure, the Brazilian architect’s work neverthless persisted with a vision of democratic utopia, where all have access to beauty
Revisit: Pedregulho housing complex, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, by Affonso Eduardo ReidySubscription
Both internationally revered and plagued with controversy, this social housing complex in Rio de Janeiro has now been resurrected following decades of neglect
Building Brazil: from the Cariocas to the Paulistas to the nowSubscription
Emerging from the desolation wrought by war, the Modernism of the Carioca and Paulista schools inspired successive generations of architects in Brazil with hope and ambition
Revisit: Nueva Santa Fe Subscription
Although Rogelio Salmona’s inner-city housing to improve the lives of middle-income families in Bogotá failed to materialise in full, it set a valuable precedent in urban renewal
From the jaws of disaster: social housing solutions in MexicoSubscription
The devastation wrought by powerful earthquakes in Mexico in 1985 and 2017 spurred the architectural community to revisit social housing, but sometimes proposals were wrought for no more than media attention
Beyond the horizon: Casa Wabi near Oaxaca by Tadao AndoSubscription
Poised between land and sea, the architect’s scheme for the Casa Wabi art foundation explores the tension between the precision of a Japanese sensibility and the lush profusion of a Mexican coastal landscape
Ada Louise Huxtable (1921-2013)Subscription
Ada Louise Huxtable made history as the first full-time architecture critic at a US newspaper when she joined the New York Times, and was later awarded the first Pulitzer Prize for Criticism in 1970
Elizabeth Diller: ‘Trump is producing an activist generation’VideoSubscription
Winner of the Jane Drew Prize 2019, Elizabeth Diller, co-founder of Diller Scofidio + Renfro, talks Trump, High Lines and the state of American architecture when we catch her at the Women in Architecture awards in March 2019
Minoru Yamasaki (1912-1986)Subscription
The architect of Pruitt-Igoe and the World Trade Center survived a life of racial discrimination and blame laid for the demise of the Modernist dream – but did not live to see the revisionist movement that asserts the underfunded Pruitt-Igoe’s fate was predetermined
Fashion victims: the preservation and evolution of the Museum of Contemporary Art San DiegoSubscription
Buildings such as Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates’ Museum of Contemporary Art in San Diego should not be embalmed, but pursuing fads can be equally compromising
Design Earth: ‘a drawing is an argument about the world’Subscription
In the face of unthinkable, catastrophic climate change, Design Earth’s speculative architecture means to tell new stories, to render our environmental future sensible, or legible to the senses
Clorindo Testa (1923-2013)Subscription
Architect to the National Library of the Argentine Republic and the Bank of London in Buenos Aires, the fanciful Clorindo Testa is a mainstay of modern Argentine architecture
Revisit: Biblioteca VasconcelosSubscription
Mexico City’s national lending library by Alberto Kalach + TAX allows for an unintentional plurality of inhabitation and experience
Volcanic panache: Ampuero Yutronic, UK & ChileSubscription
Ampuero Yutronic’s black-stained Casa Hualle in Pucón, Chile, is evocative of both the volcanic stone-clad houses and the agricultural sheds of the region
Chef's table: Refettorio Gastromotiva, Rio de Janeiro, by Metro Arquitetos AssociadosSubscription
Fighting food waste, malnutrition and social exclusion, the Refettorio Gastromotiva brings hope to Rio’s most marginalised
Blood sugar: spectres of empireSubscription
Many of the cultural assets of Britain were paid for by slave labour on the plantations of Barbados
Retrospective: Olson KundigSubscription
The work of this Seattle-based practice employs mechanisms to enhance architecture’s sense of the tactile
Conventional wisdom: report AIA 2018 in New YorkSubscription
The 2018 AIA National Convention laudably focused on increasing architecture’s diversity and potential to create better cities, but the profession risks being left behind by the construction boom
The new normal: exercises in American citizenshipSubscription
In recent times, events in the US have raised an awareness of the connections between the built environment and questions of justice, equity and political agency
A law unto themselves: San Pedro prison in La Paz, BoliviaSubscription
The thriving sense of community at San Pedro prison in La Paz, Bolivia, belies the dangers to which inmate families are exposed
Pyramid scheme: Teopanzolco Cultural Centre in Cuernavaca, Mexico, by Isaac Broid and PRODUCTORA Subscription
Placing the Aztec ruins centre stage, the Teopanzolco Cultural Centre is a dramatic landscape for performance
Frank Gehry (1929-)Subscription
Gehry’s enduring career spotlights a world that has long lain waste to the spatial conceptions and obligations of the Renaissance
Plan B for Colombia: Rural schools in Antioquia by Plan:b arquitectosSubscription
As Colombia recovers from years of armed confict, a series of schools in rural areas by Plan:b is driving programmes of education, culture and community engagement
Breaking the mould: Gloria Cabral, Gabinete de Arquitectura, ParaguaySubscription
Women in Architecture Moira Gemmill Prize winner 2018: combining innovations in construction techniques and materials as simple as Paraguayan brick has had award-winning results for Gloria Cabral and Gabinete de Arquitectura
Heat and dust: Paracas Museum, Peru by Barclay & CrousseSubscription
Women in Architecture Architect of the Year 2018 winner: Peru’s Museo de Sitio de Paracas, by Barclay & Crousse, is designed to blend into its harsh desert surroundings as well as withstand them
John Portman (1924-2017)Subscription
His hotels may have soft centres but the architecture of John Portman is as brutal as the late American capitalism that created it
Iturbide Studio in Mexico City by Taller Mauricio Rocha + Gabriela CarrilloSubscription
Enclosed patios shield this studio from a narrow colonial street in a historic part of Mexico City
Punta Sirena Hotel, Chile by WMR ArquitectosSubscription
The beach hotel usually comports itself in serene and brilliant white curves, borrowing the sleekness of the ocean liner, but the surfing resort of Curanipe in central Chile is a place for less sedentary approaches to the water. In response, WMR Arquitectos have not opted to emulate the quaint traditional buildings of the town, either; their only nod to the vernacular is their use of wood, with eucalyptus and pine filling the black steel frame of their building. This takes the form ...
Charles Moore (1925-1993)Subscription
Charles Moore was the wizard who led us out of the sterility and self-importance of Modernism and showed us that we could go home again
Ancón House, Ancón, Peru by Barclay & Crousse ArchitectureSubscription
AR House Shortlist 2017: four pavilions rise from the desert as if fashioned from the earth itself
Parallelogram House, Winnipeg, Canada by 5468796 ArchitectureSubscription
AR House Shortlist 2017: 5468796 Architecture continues to rebel against the architectural blandness of suburban Winnipeg
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