Avenida Atlântica in Rio de Janeiro, including landscape designed by Roberto Burle Marx, is a site of social coexistence, but the surrounding neighbourhood is a far-right heartland
Author Archives: Francesco Perrotta-Bosch
Portfolio: Noelia Monteiro, Estúdio Flume
Estúdio Flume works in remote locations across Brazil, providing agroforestry workers with spaces tailored to their production processes
Revisit: Casinha and Residência Vilanova Artigas II, São Paulo, Brazil
João Batista Vilanova Artigas’s two houses, designed on the same plot in the 1940s, afforded its residents a lifestyle of radical openness
Electric avenue: Avenida Paulista as a microcosm of urban Brazil
Both agora and acropolis, the Avenida Paulista in São Paulo is a melting pot for all sectors of society
Rio Olympic legacy: a cause for concern
The 2016 Olympics should have been the perfect opportunity to herald a sea change in Rio’s urban strategy, but they have ended up driving expansion