Colectivo Cais - Cristovao House
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Lisbon practice Colectivo Cais explores ways to encourage social behaviour across residential and public projects. Founded in 2014 by Guilherme Bivar and Marta Pavão, the studio’s work is rooted in the Portuguese vernacular, responding to context and optimising traditional architecture in a clean, contemporary way, as displayed in projects like the Cristóvão House in Lisbon. colectivocais.com

Colectivo Cais - Cristovao House

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Colectivo Cais

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Terras House

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Terras House

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Colectivo Cais

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Ellie Stathaki is the Architecture & Environment Director at Wallpaper*. She trained as an architect at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece and studied architectural history at the Bartlett in London. Now an established journalist, she has been a member of the Wallpaper* team since 2006, visiting buildings across the globe and interviewing leading architects such as Tadao Ando and Rem Koolhaas. Ellie has also taken part in judging panels, moderated events, curated shows and contributed in books, such as The Contemporary House (Thames & Hudson, 2018), Glenn Sestig Architecture Diary (2020) and House London (2022).