Brazilian architects abroad: London and New York

60 Threadneedle Street, London, Eric Parry Architects. Courtesy of Timothy Soar

(Image credit: 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

Braz Arch London — 60 Threadneedle Street Interior, London, Eric Parry Architects. Courtesy of Timothy Soar

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.

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).

With contributions from

Emma O'Kelly