Top 8 Architecture Firms in South America

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Architecture firms in South America are no less than the high level that is expected in this globalized world. These firms have made significant contributions, by developing unique and innovative solutions for diverse projects through their service-oriented architectural design process

1. Grupo Culata Jovai

THE WHAT?

• The project Culata Jovái Group was constructed by Ing. Miguel Angel Gonzalez Sotelo, in 2015–2017, Guatemala 1648, Asu, Py
• Miky González Merlo, Emmerick Braun, Mariangeles González Benítez, the project team
• The project’s economy is designed from the optimization of spaces, the diversity of living modules, the selection of materials and traditional construction techniques
• Concrete and bricks at the sight, which require little maintenance and no more terminations than necessary to comply with the static and constructive requirements of the material
• If you seek to generate functional spaces with the smallest number of elements, it is only necessary to obtain dwellings of quality

2. FRAM arquitectos

THE WHAT?

• The architectural studio was formed in the year 2011 in the Care of Buenos Aires by Franco Riccheri and Agustín Mendiondo
• Architects for the Facultad de Arquitectura Diseño y Urbanismo de la Universidad de Buenos Aires (FADU-UBA), both have been teaching at the same house of studies since 2011/2009
• Since 2015 FR is a graduate course assistant at the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism at the National University of La Plata (FAU-UNLP) and AM comienza the postgraduate course in the Teaching Career Specialization Course at FADU-UBA

3. SAA arquitectura + territorio

THE WHAT?

• We are a studio that develops and manages projects that change from the architectural design to the planning and territorial ordering, from a viewpoint that establishes architecture as a medium that provokes, transforms and transfers into the sphere of people, and of the natural contexts, ecological and social
• During the last years, we have developed projects in different geographies and territories, which have opened spaces for multidisciplinary participation, putting in value the work of the team, the specific knowledge and the value of the diverse

4. El Sindicato Arquitectura

THE WHAT?

• The Union was born in September 2014
• They unite against the “boss-employee” form of work
• They stopped working for other people and made the decision to form a collective and do their own things
• They are formed by Xavier Duque, Maria Reinoso, and Nicolás Viteri and we are a collaborative and experimental work team in which we seek through architectural design, construction, and urban intervention to achieve what we like the most inside and outside the profession
• They understand Architecture as a trade that is learned by doing and continue to search for the creation of teaching and learning spaces that allow us to develop skills and generate knowledge

5. IR arquitectura

THE WHAT?

• IR architecture is a collective construction started in 2008, composed of architects, designers, and enthusiasts trained in different academic and disciplinary areas
• This works as an open, malleable, and symbiotic system; its multidisciplinary nature allows it to address comprehensive work management at different scales and perspectives
• IR architecture uses models in crisis as its engine, focusing on social, environmental, and economic problems in order to offer strategies, urban, architectural, and object models impregnated with greater records of energy efficiency in all its dimensions
• IR architecture’s work has been awarded in national and international competitions, highlighted in various printed and digital publications, has been exhibited at the MARQ (Museum of Architecture of Buenos Aires), at the CMD (Metropolitan Design Center)

6. Garoa

THE WHAT?

• Located in São Paulo, or Garoa, it is collective research and speculative architecture laboratory directed by Erico Botteselli and Pedro De Bona
• Starting from the specific conditions of each situation, it lists the intervention methods and procedure
• Collaborative for the character of the development of two jobs, not that the different and complementary qualities of the two members of the team are somadas in order to develop a plural and concise job
• About the process of conception and execution: The desk develops the architectural project and manages its respective work
• Design and construction, so that the design informs and modifies the procedures; that the procedures modify and inform or design

7. Alarcia Ferrer

THE WHAT?

• Alarcia Ferrer has carried out various Provincial, National, and International contests, with various prizes
• They have been awarded and exhibited at BIAU 2014, BIAU 2016, BIAAR 2014, and BIAAR 2018
• They obtained the 1st National ARQ-FADEA 2015 award, ARQ-FADEA 2018, and the ARQ-FADEA 2018 Grand National Gold Award
• Alarcia Ferrer has been nominated for Emerging Architecture Award MCHAP 2016
• They get an Honorable Mention at YALA (Young Architects in Latin America) Venice Biennale 2018, selected to represent the country at BAL 2015 (Latin American Architecture Biennale)

8. Sauer Martins

THE WHAT?

• Architecture office founded by Cássio Sauer and Elisa t Martins with headquarters in Porto Alegre, Brazil
• Works on different scales and programs looking for architecture as an instrument capable of transforming realities
• In partnership with other architects and desks, obtain recognition in architecture and urban planning contests

REFERENCES:

1. https://www.archdaily.com/927901/36-architecture-firms-from-the-global-south-you-should-know

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