Brazil
The skies darkening with smoke over the Amazon rainforest seem too literal a symbol of Brazil's tenuous future. As Jair Bolsonaro's government strips the nation's cultural institutions of funding, as public projects are strained by their own procurement, as threats to Amazon tribes beget threats to the future of our planet, we are reminded that what happens to Brazil happens to all of us
Building Brazil: from the Cariocas to the Paulistas to the now
Fernando SerapiãoEmerging from the desolation wrought by war, the Modernism of the Carioca and Paulista schools inspired successive generations of architects in Brazil with hope and ...
Social climber: SESC 24 de Maio cultural centre in São Paulo, Brazil by Paulo Mendes da Rocha and MMBB Arquitetos
Eleanor BeaumontA modern-day social condenser, Paulo Mendes da Rocha and MMBB’s SESC 24 de Maio is a utopian vision in an increasingly dystopian political climate
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Brazilian buildings
Pillars of survival: University of Ancestral Knowledge, ceremonial centre and housing prototype in Acre, Brazil, by Rosenbaum
Guilherme WisnikThree buildings designed by Rosenbaum and Yawanawá chief Biraci Brasil Nixiwaka in the Brazilian Amazon blend ancestral practices with innovative timber construction
Revisit: Ladeira da Misericórdia in Salvador, Brazil by Lina Bo Bardi
Francesco Perrotta-BoschLina Bo Bardi’s transformation of colonial‑era buildings in Salvador da Bahia, Brazil, may be set to open to the public once more, but gentrification looms
Sebastião Salgado (1944–2025) and Lélia Wanick Salgado (1946–)
David CampanyHe documented the world while she turned the photographs into books and exhibitions – together, their work advocates social justice and environmental restoration
Roberto Burle Marx (1909–1994)
Catherine Seavitt NordensonDespite the ethical complexities of collaborating with a military regime, Burle Marx made his voice heard as an environmental advocate














