Cover: Expanded Horizon, by Ruy Teixeira and Jayme Vargas
Authored by historian Jayme Vargas and photographer Ruy Teixeira, this book brings together national and international galleries and collections to outline the recent appreciation of modern Brazilian furniture production. Featuring texts and photographic essays on 31 collections and galleries dedicated to modern Brazilian design, the book Horizonte ampliado – design moderno brasileiro highlights how this material heritage is perceived today. This perception, solidified over the decades since its inception, identifies these works as an essential part of Brazil's 20th-century modernization efforts. Its pages also reveal the maturation of the contexts surrounding modern Brazilian furniture today, as demonstrated by the high level of expertise and historical perspective found in the collections of the gallerists and collectors featured in the work.
LanzarQ is a training, internship, and mentoring project that brings together professionals from various fields within the architecture sector to support and advise junior architects as they begin their professional careers, facilitating their entry into the job market and the development of their core competencies.
A partir do Centro is a cultural project consisting of a series of debates, workshops, interviews, and an exhibition. It will take place in cultural venues in downtown Vitória, aiming to promote the appreciation of both memory and the future. The opening event will be held on March 12 at 7:00 PM at the Palácio Sônia Cabral, featuring architect and urban planner Paulo Archias Mendes da Rocha as the keynote speaker. The project will address contemporary urban themes through a cross-disciplinary approach, using the historic center of Vitória, ES, as its starting point. Among the scheduled events are three debates on March 25, 26, and 27 at 7:00 PM at the Sesc Glória Cultural Center, with workshops and an exhibition planned for May.
São Paulo Launch! The special edition of PISEAGRAMA dedicated to Vegetalidades will be launched in São Paulo this Saturday, October 28, at 4:00 PM, at Casa do Povo (R. Três Rios, 252 - Bom Retiro).
This book presents a selection of chronicles and essays on architecture, cities, and Latin American figures. Through an honest and clear voice, the author explores our territories and the lives that unfold within them.
The 2023 Guatemala Architecture Biennial brings to the forefront the need to build a city without walls, integrating public spaces that foster a sense of belonging, unity, and identity. In this interview, the Biennial's general coordinator, Esteban Borjes Castillo, discusses the significance of this year's edition.
The call for academic papers for the upcoming 21st issue of rita_ journal is now open. Submissions in Spanish or Portuguese are invited from faculty, graduate students, and professionals holding a master's or doctoral degree.
“The development of this book was motivated, among other factors, by the following: initially, by my own twelve-year tenure at the SCEE (School Building Construction Society), during which I had the opportunity to meet José Aracena, who passed away in 1971; subsequently, by a desire to explore the life of Gustavo Mönckeberg, father of fellow architect Hernán Mönckeberg Barros, who served as president of the SCEE from 1969 to 1970 and kindly provided me with the remnants of his father’s archive; and finally, by the goal of documenting their complete and valuable body of work—spanning residential, civil, educational, religious, and funerary architecture—while tracing the natural evolution of the masters who preceded them in the city's development.” - Alfredo Jünemann Gazmuri, 2021.
“Ana Durães – Landscape Dialogues” Celebrating 40 years of her career, the artist presents new paintings and prints at Casa de Petrópolis, in the Rio de Janeiro mountains, where she maintains her studio.
The Fundación Colegio Americano de Quito (FCAQ) and the Colegio de Arquitectos de Pichincha (CAE-P) have joined forces to officially launch the International Ideas Competition for the design and architectural direction of the institution's new campus, which has been recognized for its academic excellence for over 80 years.
Learn about rammed earth and plaster techniques by intervening in and transforming an abandoned tobacco house next to the Zaza River, in the central region of Cuba.
Lima has many more sunny days than its inhabitants let on. The urban layout of its historic center is the most Cartesian in South America, yet migration has generated an informal, heterodox, and radical periphery. Its society lives in a state of constant commercial frenzy, while maintaining the continent's oldest traditions. While its best-known architecture is viceregal and republican, pre-Columbian ruins are scattered throughout the city.
ARTIVIST MUNDANO OPENS IMMERSIVE EXHIBITION "MUNDANE WASTE" The use of pigments derived from environmental crimes, paper made from cigarette butts, and the repurposing of discarded materials invite reflection on the current climate emergency.
