Subtle layout changes preserved what make the Ennes Silveira Melo–designed home great: soaring ceilings, a concrete construction, and the right amount of glass.

The São Paulo-based practice, led by architects Beatriz Fujinaka and Stephanie Wolff, was tasked with conceiving a compact ...

Home to one of São Paulo's original favelas, today the site houses 20 or so families, each living in a little box that looks similar to a shipping container and measures 18 sq m.

Erica Lacerda de Souza, Bruce Lee Sousa and son Henrique of São Paulo, Brazil, lost their home during the pandemic but got a fresh start from a program that offers tiny houses to homeless people.

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The best Modernist houses are usually not in cities. The sculptural Brutalist compositions, the sleek ...

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