Architecture: Research Guide

Located in the mountainous region of Rio de Janeiro, Japú House sits on a plot of land where the relationship with the landscape was defining for its placement. Through earthmoving, a narrow flat strip was created between the contour lines, along which the program is distributed longitudinally, establishing a relationship of continuity and horizontality with the surroundings.

Casa El Trébol stands on the highest point of the neighborhood of the same name in San Carlos de Bariloche, Río Negro, in Argentine Patagonia. Set within a dense native forest on a steep slope, the project does not stem from a pre-established form, but rather from the unavoidable experience of the site: an introspective ascent through a forest of coihues and pines that culminates in a flat area open to the landscape. The architecture translates this journey into a processional route seeking stillness at the summit. The house was conceived as a device that guides the gaze, capturing the best views of the forest and, ultimately, the open horizon of Laguna El Trébol.

A refuge between the mountain and the sea. A veranda by the beach. A singular object in the landscape.

Built in the heart of the Chérive domain in Magog, this 1970s house originally served as a recreational cottage. Renovated over the years into a family vacation home, it is now set to become its owners' primary residence.

On one of the plots closest to the dunes and shoreline of Tróia, a private house steps back from the water's edge in a series of staggered, overlapping volumes that turn east toward the sea and the silhouette of the Arrábida mountains across the estuary. The brief was for a single-family retreat that could hold its own against an exceptional site without competing with it, on a plot where dune vegetation, wind and an open horizon are the given conditions any design has to answer to rather than obstacles to build around.

The life of today's suburbs is interesting, complex, and diverse, but the suburban environments we are building are not. This is the central paradox of the contemporary Australian suburb: its social life has become more inventive, more culturally layered, and more economically dynamic, while its bult form remains stubbornly generic, repetitive, and under-serviced. The Future Suburb symposium seeks to approach these questions from first principles, by exploring six interconnected aspects of the suburbs: the Life of the suburbs, the Image of the suburbs, the suburbs as a System, the Modes of Practice required to operate in the suburbs, new

Fringe Dweller's sculpted extension sees the transformation of an unassuming weatherboard cottage into a proud forever home. It's a home that walks a number of tightropes at once: balancing openness with privacy, strength with softness, and a rich historical identity with our clients' future needs.

At a time when timber is again reshaping architectural practice, Timbercraft: Lost Tectonics from East Asia revisits the enduring legacy of traditional East Asian construction. Spanning more than 1,400 years, the book examines nine landmark buildings in China, Japan, and Korea, tracing the evolution of sophisticated timber systems through interlocking components, bracket complexes, and intricate joinery.Written by architect and researcher Jae K Kim, Timbercraft makes this complex body of knowledge accessible through original analytical drawings, section perspectives, exploded axonometric views, and assembly studies. The illustrations reveal both the technical precision of structures that hav..

Casa dell’Architettura of Rome announces the second edition of CONTEMPORANEA Call for Proposal (October–December 2026), with the aim of supporting original research and reflections in the field of contemporary architecture. The Call for Proposal aims selecting architects, planners, landscape architects and/or conservation specialists developing an experimental research project, to be carried out through the use of the space “Monitor P” at the Casa dell’Architettura of Rome, identified as a permanent laboratory for research, production, and exchange. The project must be consistent with the annual theme of the CONTEMPORANEA programme, exploring the concept of &ldq..

Building a city from scratch is no easy task. It never has been, and it never will be. The very idea of creating something that would otherwise develop and grow gradually demands resources, organization, and, above all, labor. This was the case in 1958, when Brazil's Central Plateau became one of the largest construction sites of the 20th century for the building of Brasília. Tens of thousands of candangos (migrants coming predominantly from northeastern Brazil, many without prior technical training) arrived to build an entire capital in just over three years, under then-president Juscelino Kubitschek's motto of achieving "fifty years of progress in five." Oscar Niemeyer's architecture and ..