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New Photo Series Captures Casa Zalszupin, Jewel of Brazilian Modernism

© Paul Clemence
© Paul Clemence

Located amidst the vegetation, almost invisible to those who see it from the street, a jewel of modern Brazilian architecture is hidden in the São Paulo neighborhood of Jardim América. Casa Zalszupin, designed in 1960 by the Polish architect based in Brazil, Jorge Zalszupin, combines traces of local modernism with influences that the architect brought with him from Europe, notably Scandinavian architecture. In a recent photo series, Paul Clemence sought to capture through this house, "the architect's and designer's essence". 

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The Corrugated Iron Roof: Avant-Garde or Unaesthetic?

It’s an essential architectural element, one we tend to immediately take note of when we look at buildings new to us – the roof. The roofs that shelter the buildings we see in our cities today are diverse in their typology. Flat roofs are a common sight in the city centers of urban metropolises, hip roofs are a popular choice for dwellings around the world, and the gable roof is arguably the most common of all, a roof type popular in stylized depictions of what a standard house looks like.

Khayelitsha Township - Cape Town. Image © Olga Ernst under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.Corrugated iron roof - Goondah, New South Wales. Image © Wikimedia User Mattinbgn licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license.Corrugated metal building - Aldie, UK. Image © Geograph user valenta licensed under the (CC BY-SA 2.0) license.Informal settlements in the Bandra suburb - Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. Image © Dmitry Rukhlenko via Shutterstock+ 10

What Can Metaverse Planners Learn from Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities

We are still at the dawn of the Metaverse, the next wave of the Internet. The current “mainstream” Metaverse platforms serve as experimental containers to host the wildest dreams of virtual worlds where we are supposed to unleash the imagination. However, from a spatial design perspective, they have so far been lame and ordinary. Without the constraints in the physical world, how do we draft the urban blueprints in the metaverse? I believe metaverse planners can find inspiration from Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities, in which he revealed a poetic and mathematical approach to “urban planning” in the imaginary worlds.

Las Vegas in the 60s. Image Courtesy of Chloe SunTownscraper, developed by Oskar Stålberg. Image Courtesy of Chloe SunScreenshot of Sandbox Map. Image Courtesy of Chloe SunIllustration of Zobeide. Image Courtesy of Pooja Patel+ 13

Malu House / Aguirre Arquitetura

© Leonardo Finotti
© Leonardo Finotti

© Leonardo Finotti© Leonardo Finotti© Leonardo Finotti© Leonardo Finotti+ 23

Uberlândia, Brazil
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area :  4575 ft²
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year :  2019
  • Manufacturers Brands with products used in this architecture project
    Manufacturers :  AutoDesk, Artefacto, Bontempo, Casa Decor, Dpot, +7

AAF Gallery / S-AR

© Ana Cecilia Garza Villarreal
© Ana Cecilia Garza Villarreal

© Ana Cecilia Garza Villarreal© Ana Cecilia Garza Villarreal© Ana Cecilia Garza Villarreal© Ana Cecilia Garza Villarreal+ 21

  • Architects: S-AR
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area :  234
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year :  2020
  • Manufacturers Brands with products used in this architecture project
    Manufacturers :  Vitro®, Cemex, Maderería el Salto, Metall und Logistik

House Tokyo / UNEMORI ARCHITECTS

© Kai Nakamura© Kai Nakamura© Kai Nakamura© Kai Nakamura+ 23

Tokyo, Japan
  • Architects: UNEMORI ARCHITECTS
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area :  51
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year :  2019

110 Housing Units / CoBe Architecture & Paysage

© Cédric Colin
© Cédric Colin

© Cédric Colin© Cédric Colin© Cédric Colin© Cédric Colin+ 26

Toulouse, France

Vahadivan House / Design Work Group

© Vinay Panjwani© Vinay Panjwani© Vinay Panjwani© Vinay Panjwani+ 26

Surat, India
  • Architects: Design Work Group
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area :  2420
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year :  2020

Northwest Visitor Centre / Atelier Z+

pedestrain entrance aerial view. Image © CreatAR Images© CreatAR Images© CreatAR Images© CreatAR Images+ 53

Shanghai, China
  • Architects: Atelier Z+
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area :  1468
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year :  2019

Dhsac Residence / Bitte Design Studio

© Ernest Theofilus© Ernest Theofilus© Ernest Theofilus© Ernest Theofilus+ 21

Cilandak, Indonesia

Barn and Multipurpose Warehouse / Mariel Suárez

© Ramiro Sosa© Ramiro Sosa© Ramiro Sosa© Ramiro Sosa+ 44

  • Architects: Mariel Suárez
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area :  3638 ft²
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year :  2021
  • Manufacturers Brands with products used in this architecture project
    Manufacturers :  Patagonia Flooring, Arneg, Mike, Pavitec Concrete, Walmer, +1

Siriúba House / Dall'Ovo Magalhães Arquitetura

© Bicubico© Bicubico© Bicubico© Bicubico+ 23

  • Area Area of this architecture project Area :  2992 ft²
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year :  2021
  • Manufacturers Brands with products used in this architecture project
    Manufacturers :  Alwitra, Cerâmica Brennand, ETIP projetos, Etel Design, Lightworks Iluminação, +4

The Climber’s Cabin / AR Design Studio

© Martin Gardner© Martin Gardner© Martin Gardner© Martin Gardner+ 26

  • Architects: AR Design Studio
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area :  25
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year :  2021
  • Manufacturers Brands with products used in this architecture project
    Manufacturers :  Herman Miller, Buckland Timber, Smart Systems

House Renovation in Calabria Street / AMOO

© José Hevia
© José Hevia

© José Hevia© José Hevia© José Hevia© José Hevia+ 26

  • Architects: AMOO
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area :  506 ft²
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year :  2022

The Laboratory of the Future: The 2023 Venice Architecture Biennale Announces Title and Theme of its 18th Edition

Running from May 20th to November 26th, 2023 in the Giardini, at the Arsenale, and at various sites around Venice, the 18th International Architecture Exhibition will be titled: The Laboratory of the Future. Announced today by the President of La Biennale di Venezia, Roberto Cicutto, and the Curator of the exhibition, Lesley Lokko, the theme and title of this edition will consider the African continent as the protagonist of the future. “There is one place on this planet where all these questions of equity, race, hope, and fear converge and coalesce. Africa. At an anthropological level, we are all African. And what happens in Africa happens to us all”, explains Lokko.

Accra_Festus Jackson-Davis. Image Courtesy of La Biennale di VeneziaAccra_Festus Jackson-Davis. Image Courtesy of La Biennale di VeneziaAccra_Festus Jackson-Davis. Image Courtesy of La Biennale di VeneziaLaboratory of the Future - Courtesy of La Biennale di Venezia. Image © Fred Swart+ 14

Bruges Meeting & Convention Centre / META architectuurbureau + Eduardo Souto de Moura

© Filip Dujardin
© Filip Dujardin

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From Stonehenge to Greek temples, architecture is the signature of humankind on landscape, the artificial element that has always been connected to the natural environment. Architecture and landscape are linked by a fundamental continuity that is now starting to fade, damaging the quality of the space we dwell.

Today, more than ever, the landscape is a precious heritage that architecture can and must enhance, while protecting it to pass it on to future generations: architects shall not give up on working on landscape, instead they should be able to design architectures that respond to each landscape’s specific feature and generate wonderful and unique spaces.

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