“I heard of a chaotic and experimental school of architecture nearby and I immediately decided to go”

As a few, Carla Juaçaba is focusing on residential and cultural programs in her native country, Brazil.  She also includes exhibition design and various academic activities. She won the inaugural arcVision prize for women in architecture in 2013, and was nominated for the schelling architecture award a year later.

Design Principles. Her grandmother was an artist, and Carla was fascinated by her library of architecture and art she speaks about it like “a good vacation”. The architecture was occasional and circumstantial on Carla’s life.

Her background  it’s not specifically “architectural”. She approached to music across studies of piano. Her curiosity continuous attempt to understand the japanese zen culture with all the paths that may exist: anthropology, haiku, painting, etc. Those paths are never enough. Octavio Paz, Claude Lévi-Strauss and Roland Barthes are an important path for that too.

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Until today, she consider  that the influence on her work is made of a mix between: nordic architecture , the work of Sverre Fehn, Jørn utzon and Sigurd Lewerentz. At the same time brazilian architects such as Paulo Mendes Da Rocha and Sérgio Bernardes. also a few artists in brazil such as Waltercio Caldas, Almilcar De Castro and Mira Schendel, and outside of brazil, Richard Serra. I am beginning to appreciate John Hejduk and realize that Kazuyo Sejima may have an immense admiration for him.

Carla Juaçaba’s habilities. Ovel all, and in the day a day Carla observe the possibilities, and work with that. An concrete example was in copacabana, on the pavilion humanidade project: “the scaffolding was there, it was part of the city, in the mountains, the stone was there. And when I don’t find anything, I think there is a desire hidden somewhere”.

Despite to live in a commonplace where everything is a computer generated visualizations the architect continues representing ideas in drawings in a very abstract way. She consider that is a invitation to imagination.

Carla Juaçaba continues working on a few housing projects, exhibition designs, and for the first time she is participating on an invited competition for an institute in Rio. With a project about a small home named ‘casa posse’, where the foundation is the structure that supports the entire construction, and also a children’s hospice for palliative care.

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Juaçaba’s advices to young architects and designers is never give up to continue working, and don’t forget the beauty on this profession.