The Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC), in partnership with Escola da Cidade, X–topia, Casa Horizonte, and IAB–RJ, is organizing for the first time the Global Summer School 2025 in Rio de Janeiro. As part of the activation, reopening, and expansion of a network of global nodes led by alumni, GSS Rio 25 takes on the theme Metropolitan Futures. Infrastructure, data, AI, and design converge in an expanded disciplinary field that brings together architecture, urbanism, landscape, media technologies, and computational practices.

 

This intensive program will feature a series of lectures delivered by researchers and experts from Brazil and abroad, along with hands-on studio modules and technology/software workshops. The aim is to foster an immersive exploration of metropolitan spaces and infrastructures through design proposals, culminating in a public presentation and final exhibition showcasing the students’ projects.

tutors:

Pedro de Moraes
Marcella Del Signore
Tatiana Teixeira
Carolina Heldt
Guilherme Lassance
Willy Muller
Flaviana Vieira

The collaboration between Casa_Horizonte and Gávea Arquitetos for the Rio de Corpo e Alma exhibition offers an expanded interpretation of the exhibition space, creating a topography that support the artists’ works and guide the audience’s journey. It results in a space that captures the dynamic movements of the city through the interaction between the artists’ works and the collection of the Historical Museum of the City of Rio de Janeiro.

Curation: Isabel Portella
Executive Production: Fava Comunicação & Arte. Fabiana Gabriel
General Coordination: Belolhar Produção & Arte. Bel Tinoco
Content Coordination: Pedro Tinoco
Production Assistant: Sofia Rocha
Exhibition Design: Casa_Horizonte. Mariana Vieira e Mariana Cobucci
Gávea Arquitetos. Alziro Neto e Felipe Rio Branco
Visual Identity: Memória de Bolso. Juliana Montenegro
Scenography: Gabarito Cenografia
Photography: Rafael Salim

The exhibition, a collaboration between Tropigalpão, Casa_Horizonte, and Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, presented seven artists whose works investigate the intersections of art and architecture. Curated by Denise Milfont, the program also included guided visits and conversations with artists, architects, filmmakers, curators, and representatives of social movements and urban occupations.

 

Full catalogue available here.

curation: Denise Milfont
production: Tropigalpão
partnership: Kunstakademie Düsseldorf and Casa_Horizonte
photography: Rafael Salim

artists:
Alexandre Fenerich
Arthur Murtinho
Hannah Nelsen
Katharina Keller
Mariana Cobucci
Philippe Derlien
Tomás Cid

Estudio Flume, based in São Paulo, develops socio-environmental projects in remote areas of Brazil, working in different biomes of a country with a continental scale. The lecture will cover 3 projects from different moments of the office: Headquarters of the Cashew Nuts, in the village of Nova Vida – MA (2018), Canoe Shelter, on the island of Jaguanum – RJ (2020), and Babaçu Breakers Center, in the village of Sumaúma – MA (2022), focusing on the learning process before and during construction as the most important phases in spatializing the words of the communities.

 

After the lecture, a chat moderated by Francesco Perrotta-Bosch, an architecture critic and curator who wrote the profile of what he called “the exceptional Noelia Monteiro” for “The Architectural Review”.

 

Organization in partnership with IAB-RJ
Collaboration _ Marcelle Falcão

Noelia Monteiro is an architect and urban planner, graduated from the National University of Córdoba, Argentina, in 2008, with a postgraduate degree in “Social Housing and City” in 2011, and in “Architecture, Education, and Society” in 2021, both from the Escola da Cidade in São Paulo, where she is also a professor and coordinator. She is currently developing her doctoral research at the Technical University of Berlin, Germany. She was selected for the Moira Gemmill Prize for Emerging Architecture 2024, which recognizes designers under 45 who are leading their own practices.

Christian Teshirogi is an architect and urban planner, graduated from the Presbiterian Mackenzie University, São Paulo, in 2002. He has dedicated himself to enabling construction in remote areas, integrating architecture and business with socio-environmental impact, in accordance with the Sustainable Development Goals (ODS). He participated in award-winning competitions, such as Dust to Dust: Redesigning Urban Life in Healthy Soils, in London, and in conferences like UIA 2021 RIO.

UNA MUNIZVIEGAS  is the architecture and urbanism studio founded by architect Cristiane Muniz and architect Fernando Viégas, based in São Paulo since 1996. Both are professors, graduated and masters from FAUUSP in 1993 and 2005. Since 2004, they have been teachers at Escola da Cidade.

 

They participated in various exhibitions such as editions of the Venice Biennale and the Ibero-American Biennale, the Lisbon Triennale, and the Biennial of Chile, Ecuador, Bolivia, and Argentina. Guest professors at Taller Sudamerica/AR, the Autonomous University of Lisbon/PT, ETSAM/ES, and Harvard/USA.

 

Organization in partnership with IAB-RJ; Thiago T. A. Soveral, Cauê Capilé (FAU/UFRJ)

Collaboration _ Marcelle Falcão

 

Photos of the Recreation Center in Campinas _ Bebete Viégas

Photos CM and FV _ Clarissa Mohany

Cristiane Muniz is the current undergraduate director and co-coordinated a lato sensu postgraduate course on education in architecture for 5 years. Fernando Viegas us the deputy president of the Institution and has co-coordinated the lato sensu postgraduate course Civilization America: Geography, City, and Architecture since 2010. Teaching activities and their extension with conferences, workshops, and seminars make up the daily routine and complement architectural practice, supporting applied research.

We invite Paraguayan-Brazilian architect Glória Cabral for a conversation on November 20, at 6 pm at Tropigalpão.

The architect has received international recognition through experimental projects related to context, structural innovation, and responsible use of resources. She has received several awards and participated in biennials around the world, such as the Golden Lion at the Venice Architecture Biennale and first prize at the Pan American Biennial with the Teleton Children’s Rehabilitation Center, among others. She was chosen by Swiss architect Peter Zumthor as a protégé in the Rolex Mentors & Protégés initiative. She was a partner at the Gabinete de Arquitectura office in Asunción, Paraguay, and in 2021 she founded Estudio 4.4, currently working in Laguna, Santa Catarina, Brazil.

photography: Rafael Mollica

The Expanded Catalogs HORIZONTE_ document the research carried out in the Workplace Design Studio, a second-year course in the Architecture and Urbanism program at PUC-Rio. The project brings together critical reflection, the production of drawings and models, study trips, and exhibition-making experiments, understanding the studio as a field for investigation and knowledge production. Each edition emerges from a collective and experimental process: the first (2022) focused on the work of Álvaro Siza; the second (2023) on contemporary architecture produced in Paraguay; and the third (2024) on the legacy of Lina Bo Bardi.

 

To access the complete catalog, click here.

organization:

Mariana Vieira e Mariana Cobucci

teaching staff:

Mariana Vieira (supervision), Alziro Neto, Nanda Eskes,

Pedro Lobão, Pedro Moraes, Roberio Catelani,

Monica Aguiar, Lais Bronstein

monitors:

Mariana Cobucci e João Ximenes

graphic design:

Sofia Alvim e Mariana Cobucci

The Expanded Catalogs HORIZONTE_ document the research carried out in the Workplace Design Studio, a second-year course in the Architecture and Urbanism program at PUC-Rio. The project brings together critical reflection, the production of drawings and models, study trips, and exhibition-making experiments, understanding the studio as a field for investigation and knowledge production. Each edition emerges from a collective and experimental process: the first (2022) focused on the work of Álvaro Siza; the second (2023) on contemporary architecture produced in Paraguay; and the third (2024) on the legacy of Lina Bo Bardi.

 

To access the complete catalog, click here.

organization:

Mariana Vieira e Mariana Cobucci

teaching staff:

Mariana Vieira (supervisão), Alziro Neto, Nanda Eskes,

Pedro Lobão, Pedro Moraes, Roberio Catelani,

Monica Aguiar, Lais Bronstein

monitors:

Julia Siqueira e Beatriz Lima

graphic design:

Mariana Cobucci

The Expanded Catalogs HORIZONTE_ document the research carried out in the Workplace Design Studio, a second-year course in the Architecture and Urbanism program at PUC-Rio. The project brings together critical reflection, the production of drawings and models, study trips, and exhibition-making experiments, understanding the studio as a field for investigation and knowledge production. Each edition emerges from a collective and experimental process: the first (2022) focused on the work of Álvaro Siza; the second (2023) on contemporary architecture produced in Paraguay; and the third (2024) on the legacy of Lina Bo Bardi.

 

To access the complete catalog, click here.

organization:

Mariana Vieira e Mariana Cobucci

teaching staff:

Mariana Vieira (supervisão), Alziro Neto, Nanda Eskes,

Israel Nunes, Pedro Moraes, Roberio Catelani,

Monica Aguiar, Lais Bronstein

monitors:

Luisa Landim e Beatriz Garicoi

Maria Laura Pelajo e Vinicius Piovezan

graphic design:

Mariana Cobucci

For the first time in Brazil, Carson’s work is presented in the theater.

 

A scenic translation by Bruno Siniscalchi com Amália Zebulun Nobre, Anna Turra, Fabiana Comparato, Ismar Tirelli Neto Jac Leirner, José Mekler, Julia Menna Barreto, Marina Dalgalarrondo, Marina Vianna, Mayana Redin, Vitor Garcez.

 

The word premiere of Autobiografia do Vermelho in the theater took place in March 2024, in Rio de Janeiro, in partnership with the Lia Rodrigues Dance Company, Centro de Artes da Maré, and Redes da Maré.

 

The second season took place in August 2024 and featured presentations followed by public discussions with Carlito Azevedo, Flora Süssekind, Danilo Hora, Inês Cardoso, and more.

Photos of the show _ Rafael Salim

An adaptation and translation by Catarina Lins, Mariana Vieira, and Valeria Campos for the reading by Mariana Vieira during the Critical Season of the Autobiografia do Vermelho, staged by Bruno Siniscalchi, at Tropigalpão, in Rio de Janeiro.

 

The lecture “Corners” was delivered by Anne Carson at the New York Public Library with a simultaneous presentation at the Onassis Cultural Center New York on Dezembro 7, 2018. Watch here.

 

Organization in partnership with Bruno Siniscalchi, Carlos Zebulun e Denise Milfont (Tropigalpão).

Guided tour by Sérgio Peres, president of the Residents’ Association, and Marcela Abla, president of the Institute of Architects of Brazil and specialist in the work of Carmem Portinho.

Whit the aim of expanding the repertoire on the production of carioca architecture, we organized in-person visits to some buildings, always accompanied whenever possible by their authors, or researchers on the subject. The idea is to create possibilities and scenarios for conversations and critical reflection about the visited works with guests.