In Brazil, a House That Frames Its Landscape Like a Camera

By eliminating walls and color, the architect Marcio Kogan takes the form of a Trancoso fishing cottage to its most natural — yet elevated — ideal.

Paulo Mendes da Rocha, Architect of ‘Concrete Acrobatics,’ Dies at 92

A Pritzker Prize winner, he was known for a muscular style often called Brazilian Brutalism, but he had a lighter touch than that label implies.

A Small Brazilian Photo Club That Reached for the Skyline

How a group of mostly amateur photographers helped develop Brazil’s modernist aesthetic.

‘Good for the Soul’: Giant Murals Turn São Paulo Into Open Air Gallery

Officials in São Paulo, Brazil, once hounded graffiti artists and muralists, treating them as vandals. Now the city champions, and even funds, their art, and it’s everywhere and supersized.

Venice Honors Lina Bo Bardi With a Golden Lion in Memoriam. Finalmente, Many Say.

The multitalented 20th-century architect’s work is especially pertinent to our times, and to the theme of a pandemic biennale, its curator says.