References

A collection of things that have shaped the way I see.

Architects

Vincent Van DuysenThe reference for interiors that are quiet and unmistakable at once.
Álvaro SizaProof that a wall can be modest and monumental in the same gesture.
Oscar NiemeyerThe curve as a national language — proof that concrete can be sensual.
Marcio KoganThe Brazilian horizon: long, low, warm — where I learned to love the slab.

Michael AnastassiadesLight reduced to its idea. A sphere, a line, and nothing left to remove.
Piero LissoniMilanese rigour at its warmest — systems that never feel like systems.
Patricia UrquiolaFearless with colour and craft, and somehow always right.
Gio PontiThe whole idea of the Italian home, drawn by one hand.
Lucas RecchiaA new Brazilian generation — material experiments at furniture scale.

Anish KapoorVoids and mirrors — sculpture that changes the room around it.
Artur LescherSuspended geometry — Brazilian precision that feels weightless.
Donald JuddThe box, taken seriously — rigour as its own kind of beauty.
Isamu NoguchiWhere sculpture, furniture and garden stop being separate crafts.
José PatrícioFrom Recife, like me — order built patiently out of thousands of small pieces.

Architecture as Space — Bruno ZeviLearning to read architecture through space — not simply through what it looks like.
Cities for People — Jan GehlThe city at human scale — designed around how people actually move, meet and live.
Gone Girl — Gillian FlynnSharp, dark and unsettling — a story about marriage, manipulation and how easily perception can be constructed.
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo — Stieg LarssonCrime, family secrets and power — the kind of investigation that makes it impossible to stop reading.

Midnight in Paris — Woody AllenThe irresistible idea that every city contains other cities — and other times — within it.
Call Me by Your Name — Luca GuadagninoA house that feels like a memory. Rooms, landscape and one endless Italian summer.
The Talented Mr. Ripley — Anthony MinghellaItaly at its most seductive — beautiful houses, beautiful places, and the darker side of wanting another life.
The Bone Collector — Phillip NoyceA completely different New York — dark, tense and atmospheric. Always in love with a good thriller.