Brazilian architects abroad: London and New York

Emma O'Kelly
Casting our net far and wide for our Brazil issue research, we immediately realised that Brazilian architecture’s influence reaches much further than the country’s geographical borders.
Setting out to find Brazilian architects that work abroad, understand their impact and listen to their views on their country’s architecture, what better place to look than two of the world’s key architecture hubs, London and New York? And what better place to meet them than the countries’ main architecture body headquarters – respectively the RIBA and the AIA.
To read what they say about Brazil, their architecture and working abroad, click on the links below.
To read our interviews with the Brazilian architects in New York, click here
To read our interviews with the Brazilian architects in London, click here
60 Threadneedle Street Interior, London, Eric Parry Architects. Courtesy of Timothy Soar
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, Rick Mather Architects. Courtesy of Andy Matthews
Balnearn Boathouse, Tayside, McKenzie Strickland Associates. Courtesy of Keith Hunter
Broadcasting Place, Leeds, Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios. Courtesy of Cloud 9
Cardiff Central Library, BDP. Courtesy of CommissionAir
Clapham Manor Primary School, London, architects: drmm. Courtesy of Jonas Lencer
Creative Business Units, Aberystwyth, Heatherwick Studio. Courtesy of Edmund Sumner
Great North Museum, Farrells with Purves Ash and Casson Mann. Courtesy of Andrew Haslam
Infinity Bridge, Teesdale, Spence Associates. Courtesy of Morley von Steinburg
New Horizon Youth Centre, Adam Khan Architects. Courtesy of David Grandorgev
Regents Place Pavilion, London, Carmody Groarke. Courtesy of Gautier Deblonde
Salvation Army, Chelmsford, Hudson Architects. Courtesy of Keith Collie
AIANY Design Awards Interiors Merit winner: the Dow Jones offices, in New York, by STUDIOS Architecture. Image: Albert Vecerka/Esto
AIANY Design Awards Architecture Honor winner: 41 Cooper Square, in New York, NY by Morphosis Architects and Gruzen Samton, LLP. Image: Iwan Baan
AIANY Design Awards: 'The New Domino' exhibition showcases the Rafael Vinoly masterplan for a 2200-unit development on the East River Waterfront in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. At the centre of the site is a landmarked former sugar refinery. Until May 29. Image: Jonah Stern.
AIANY Design Awards Urban Design Honor winner: the High Line, in New York, by James Corner Field Operations and Diller Scofidio + Renfro. Image: Iwan Baan
AIANY Design Awards Unbuilt Merit Award winner: Open Paradox, proposed for Seoul, South Korea, by Ginseng Chicken Architecture P.C. Image: Ginseng Chicken Architecture P.C. Image: Ginseng Chicken Architecture P.C.
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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).
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