« Temporalities », by Carla Juaçaba, architecte, Rio de Janeiro
The Chaillot Interviews
Carla Juaçaba’s projects explore the dimension of time, through their fragility or the quest for a minimal presence.
Chapelle du Vatican pour le pavillon du Saint-Siège à la Biennale d’architecture de Venise, Carla Juaçaba.
Each month, the Chaillot Interviews presents a lecture by a French or international architect, urban planner or landscape architect. These events offer an in-depth look at their work, their approach and their working methods.
Through her projects — whether in architecture, art installations or objects — Carla Juaçaba develops an approach in which time plays a central role. Her works are distinguished by their economy of means and gestures, with each design conceived as an essential action.
Based in Rio de Janeiro since 2000, the Brazilian architect’s practice is characterised by cultural and residential projects. She is particularly noted for the temporary Humanidade 2012 pavilion, designed for the Rio+20 conference in collaboration with director Bia Lessa, as well as for the creation of a chapel for the Holy See’s pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale in 2018.
A recipient of the arcVision International Prize – Women and Architecture in 2013 and The Architectural Review’s AREA Prize for Emerging Architecture in 2018, Carla Juaçaba has been teaching at the Accademia di Mendrisio in Switzerland since 2019.