Brazil-based Carla Juaçaba Studio has been announced as the winner of the AR?s Emerging Architecture Awards 2018 in Amsterdam. The firm will receive a £10,000 prize in recognition of exemplary projects such as their chapel for the Pavilion of the Holy See at the 2018 Venice Biennale, and the Casa Santa Teresa in Rio de Janiero.

Carla Juaçaba/Casa Santa Teresa. Image © Federico Cairoli

Brazil-based Carla Juaçaba Studio has been announced as the winner of the AR?s Emerging Architecture Awards 2018 in Amsterdam. The firm will receive a £10,000 prize in recognition of exemplary projects such as their chapel for the Pavilion of the Holy See at the 2018 Venice Biennale, and the Casa Santa Teresa in Rio de Janiero.The practice was chosen from a shortlist of 14 by a judging panel featuring Spanish architect Ángela García de Paredes of Paredes Pedrosa, finalists of the inaugural 1999 AR Emerging Architecture awards; Indian architect Gurjit Singh Matharoo commended in the 2009 edition; and Ronald Rietveld of Dutch practice RAAAF, winners in 2013.
Carla Juaçaba/Casa Santa Teresa. Image © Federico Cairoli

In awarding the honor to Carla Juaçaba Studio, the jury praised the firm?s ?consistency and continuity?from a simple pavilion to a family house, the tenacity and determination to achieve her vision, and working closely on site.? Reflecting on the winner, jury panelist Ángela García de Paredes said ??Carla Juaçaba proposed something that inter...