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CCA Releases Documentary on Carla Juaçaba’s Work to Support Forest Conservation in Brazil's Coffee Region

Antonia Piñeiro — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 04:30:00 +0000

The Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) launched a documentary and exhibition, "With an Acre", the third and final chapter of the series Groundwork, which explores how contemporary architects cultivate alternative modes of practice to address the ecological crisis. The documentary follows the work of architect Carla Juaçaba in Minas Gerais, Brazil, where she is developing pavilions in a coffee field where collectives resist extractive industrial agriculture. The narrative examines the role of architects in extractivist contexts facing land regeneration challenges and unstable climatic conditions, as well as the tools smallholder farmers can use to cope with the environmental and social consequences of colonial settlement, urbanization, and industrialization.

Lightness and Precision: Getting to Know Carla Juaçaba’s Work

Camilla Ghisleni — Thu, 14 Apr 2022 05:00:00 +0000

Technical precision combined with environmental concern and exploratory and investigative character make Carla Juaçaba one of the great representatives of Latin American architecture today. Carioca, born in 1976, Carla Juaçaba attended the University of Santa Úrsula and attributes much of her experimental and interdisciplinary style to this educational institution. It is not by chance that during her academic training her great inspiring masters were the architect Sergio Bernardes and the visual artist Lygia Pape, insinuating her interest in the multiple disciplinary branches that can compose architecture. In this sense, while still at graduation, Carla worked together with architect Gisela Magalhães, from Oscar Niemeyer’s generation, in scenography and expography projects.

36 Architecture Firms from the Global South You Should Know

ArchDaily Team — Thu, 07 Nov 2019 08:45:00 +0000

Countries that are part of the so-called “global south” have undergone many transformations in their cities and urban contexts in recent years due to the economic and social challenges they face. Urban growth, sustainable development, quality of life and health in emerging cities, and the development of their own cultural identity have been some of the issues that local architecture had to incorporate.

Young architects have understood the importance of making an architecture that is deeply rooted in their own territory while giving this architecture a clear local identity. By generating new typologies and using their own resources and materials, they have presented innovative, site-specific, and, above all, solutions with a new fresh focus towards what represents them as creators of this architecture.

12 Award-Winning Women in Architecture From the Past 12 Months

Niall Patrick Walsh — Fri, 08 Mar 2019 09:00:00 +0000

In the 12 months since 2018 International Women’s Day, we have seen many female architects come to fore of the design discourse. From Shelley McNamara and Yvonne Farrell’s curation of the 2018 Venice Biennale to Frida Escobedo's celebrated design for the Serpentine Pavilion, the architectural newsfeeds from the past twelve months have played host to many signs of change in a traditionally male-dominated profession.

Carla Juaçaba Studio Wins the AR Emerging Architecture Awards 2018

Niall Patrick Walsh — Fri, 30 Nov 2018 08:15:00 +0000

Brazil-based Carla Juaçaba Studio has been announced as the winner of the AR’s Emerging Architecture Awards 2018 in Amsterdam. The firm will receive a £10,000 prize in recognition of exemplary projects such as their chapel for the Pavilion of the Holy See at the 2018 Venice Biennale, and the Casa Santa Teresa in Rio de Janiero.

Look Inside the Vatican Venice Biennale Chapels in New Video from Spirit of Space

Jack McManus — Sun, 29 Jul 2018 14:00:00 +0000

Vatican City participated in the Venice Architecture Biennale for the first time this year, inviting the public to explore a sequence of unique chapels designed by renowned architects including Norman Foster and Eduardo Souto de Moura. Located in the woods that cover the island of San Giorgio Maggiore, the chapels offer interpretations of Gunnar Asplund’s 1920 chapel at Woodland Cemetery in Stockholm, a seminal example of modernist memorial architecture set in a similarly natural wooded context.

10 Chapels in a Venice Forest Comprise The Vatican's First Ever Biennale Contribution

Rory Stott — Fri, 25 May 2018 12:00:00 +0000

With the opening of the 16th Venice Architecture Biennale comes a look at the first ever contribution by the Holy See, an exhibition that brings together architects to design chapels that, after the Biennale, can be relocated to sites around the globe.

Carla Juaçaba Presents Her Chapel Design for the Vatican at the 2018 Venice Biennale

Romullo Baratto — Fri, 25 May 2018 06:00:00 +0000

Selected along with nine other architects by the Vatican, Carla Juaçaba has shared images of her proposed chapel design as part of the Venice Architecture Biennial, which marks the city-state's first time participating in the largest architectural event in the world.

10 Architects to Design Chapels for the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale

Nicolás Valencia — Tue, 16 Jan 2018 14:00:00 +0000

In 2018 the Vatican will participate in the Venice Architecture Biennale for the first time. Ten international architects will construct 10 different chapels as part of the representation of the city-state in the Italian architecture event. The news was confirmed by Paraguayan media outlets ABC y Última Hora, who revealed that one of the participants was local architect Javier Corvalán.

The Ambitious Project that Brings Together 44 Mexican and International Architects

Karina Zatarain — Tue, 19 Sep 2017 06:00:00 +0000

In Baja California, Mexico, the 860 hectares that make up 'Cuatro Cuatros'—a tourism development that for the past ten years has been overseen and designed by Mauricio Rocha and Gabriela Carrillo of Taller de Arquitectura—present an arid and mostly monochromatic landscape interrupted only by stones and bushland.

Arquitetas Invisíveis Presents 48 Women in Architecture: Part 7, Sustainable Architecture

Victor Delaqua — Sun, 15 Mar 2015 18:00:42 +0000

To celebrate International Women’s Day, we asked the Brazilian non-profit group Arquitetas Invisíveis to share with us a part of their work, which identifies women in architecture and urbanism. They kindly shared with us a list of 48 important women architects, divided into seven categories: pioneers, “in the shadows,” architecture, urbanism, social architecture, landscape architecture and sustainable architecture. We will be sharing this list over the course of the week.

Humanidade2012 / Carla Juaçaba + Bia Lessa

Igor Fracalossi — Fri, 03 Jan 2014 00:00:00 +0000

Our main idea with this project was to come up with an exhibition where space and project was one and the same: the space is the exhibition itself.

Brazilian Architect Carla Juacaba Wins Inaugural arcVision Women and Architecture Prize

Karissa Rosenfield — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 00:00:00 +0000

Brazilian architect Carla Juaçaba has been announced as the winner of the inaugural arcVision - Women and Architecture Prize, an international social architecture award instituted by the Italcementi Group. The prize honors Juaçaba’s work for exemplifying significant qualitative excellence and attention to the core issues of construction, such as technology, sustainability, social and cultural implications.