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South American Architecture Designs

Key Contemporary Architectural Developments: New Built Environment

post updated 23 Feb 2020

Architecture Designs in South America

We’ve selected what we feel are the key examples of South American Architecture Designs. We aim to include high quality interesting South American buildings. We cover completed South American buildings, new building designs and architectural exhibitions. We also post architecture competitions across South America.

e-architect would argue that the strongest recent architecture in South America – Modern and contemporary – can be found in Brazil, though Chile also has a strong tradition relative to its smaller population. Famous South American architects include Oscar Niemeyer and Lina Bo Bardi (actually Italian) who produced celebrated Modernist architecture.

More recently architecture studios such as Marcio Kogan (studio mk.27) in Brazil and Sebastián Irarrázaval in Chile have ensured South American architecture remains in a global spotlight. Another major design studio is Enrique Browne Arquitectos in Chile and in Argentina Andrés Remy Arquitectos has produced a string of good contemporary buildings.

We have 4 pages of South American Architecture selections with links to hundreds of individual project pages.

South American Architecture : A-C

South American Architecture Designs : D-H (this page)

South American Building Developments : I-O

South American Buildings : P-Z

South American Architecture Designs – geographical by country

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South America Architecture Designs News

Architecture Designs – latest additions to this page, arranged chronologically:

5 Feb 2013
Faena Aleph Residences, Buenos Aires, north east Argentina
Design: Foster + Partners

photo : Nigel Young_Foster + Partners
Faena Aleph Residences
Foster + Partners has completed its first project in Latin America with the opening of the Faena Aleph Residences in Buenos Aires, Argentina – part of the reinvention of the former docks of Puerto Madero as a dynamic new urban quarter. Drawing on local architectural traditions, its apartments feature vaulted living spaces and deep, sheltered terraces that exploit the wonderful local climate and maximise views towards the city and Rio de la Plata.

27 Jun 2010
Devoto House, near Cordoba, Argentina
Design: Andrés Remy Arquitectos

photograph : Alejandro Peral
Devoto House
The house of 500 m2 was done for a young couple with kids. It was larger than the dimensions of given lot, threatening the space of the garden. For that reason, the first floor was given less program, leaving open the exterior spaces. The living, kitchen and dining rooms expose the garden that penetrates all the volumes in the house. The spaces distort the conventional plans of an urban house.