São Paulo Architecture
Architecture and urban design in São Paulo, covering adaptive reuse, heritage conservation, and contemporary building practice in Brazil's largest city.
São Paulo has a dense and layered built environment, shaped by modernist architecture, rapid mid-century growth, and a continuing stock of older houses and industrial buildings. Architects working in the city often face the question of how to add new structures to existing fabric without erasing its history.
Member work under this topic examines urban regeneration in the LAPI district, the adaptive reuse of a 1940s house with a steel addition, the transformation of a museum that integrates heritage and public space, and passive design approaches in residential projects.
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23 SUL Digs Down and Opens Up a São Paulo House Instead of Stacking a Second Story on Top
In São Paulo, 23 SUL exposes timber trusses, strips old brick and excavates a meter into the ground to grow a one-story house without adding a floor.
Melina Romano Carries Rural São Paulo Indoors at Otto Felix's Damata House in Itatiba
In rural Itatiba, Brazil, reed ceilings, rammed earth and regional furniture carry the countryside's material language through an 880 m² house.
ARCHITECTS OFFICE Packs a Cobalt Blue Art Bookstore into 40 Square Meters of a São Paulo Shopping Mall
In São Paulo's MorumbiShopping, a triangular 40 m² concept store wraps art books in monochrome blue shelving under one tensioned skylight.
Clube Stages Hick Duarte's Amateur Football Photographs Across Five Elements in a Downtown São Paulo Gallery
In Galeria Metrópole, São Paulo, Clube turns floor, wall, pillars, grid and screens into a compact pitch for Hick Duarte's portraits of amateur football.
