The Wallpaper* Architects Listing 2026 contains Marilia Pellegrini, a younger architect and her São Paulo follow, who joins our annual round-up of thrilling rising structure studios.
Who: Marilia Pellegrini
Following stints at each Brazilian and worldwide studios, architect Marilia Pellegrini arrange her impartial follow in 2016 in São Paulo. Her mantra? A bespoke, extremely architecture-and-craft-led method, she explains: ‘Every challenge comes with its personal repertoire and must be crafted like a hand-embroidered piece.’ Centred on this, Pellegrini and her group are all the time eager on delivering a well-rounded outcome, the place they’ll combine structure, inside and furnishings design to optimum outcomes. ‘Magnificence in issues and kindness in folks motivates me. Giving again magnificence in my tasks and being variety to my purchasers is the least I can do,’ she provides.
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(Picture credit score: Fran Parente)
Having discovered from a few of Brazil’s most distinguished architects and designers offers the group an essential edge, the architect believes: ‘Gustavo Penna, nonetheless throughout my time at college, taught me poetry. The sensitivity of a challenge begins with the pencil stroke. Rene Gonzalez, a grasp of composition and educated by Richard Meier, taught me that no line exists by itself. He taught me to compose. Final however not least, Arthur Casas taught me stability – color scheme, textures and supplies; concord – between curves and straight strains; and the significance of being full as an architect.’
On the identical time, ‘The affect of my artistic course of adjustments continually, at each second,’ Pellegrini provides. ‘The one nice affect frequent to all my works is nature.’
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What: Casa das Palmeiras
Conceived as the final word city sanctuary, Casa das Palmeiras sits on the coronary heart of São Paulo, within the suburban enclave of Alphaville. A low-lying, single-floor quantity, barely sunken into the terrain and engulfed in greenery from a leafy backyard, the house is framed by the palm bushes that impressed its identify.
Behind a comparatively opaque street-facing exterior, a flowing, breezy inside unfolds, the place indoor and out of doors dwelling mix seamlessly throughout dwelling areas that open absolutely to the surface and al fresco areas that blur the boundaries additional towards a panorama created by designer Renata Tilli. This creates a way of not solely consolation and performance, but in addition luxurious, Pellegrini explains.
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(Picture credit score: Fran Parente)
A impartial, predominantly light-coloured floor palette underlines a softness inside and outside, composed of beige limestone, light-coloured wooden and gentle stone. The challenge contains 4 bed room suites, a visitor lavatory, a fitness center and an expansive, open-plan dwelling house for stress-free, cooking and entertaining.
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Why: Architects Listing 2026
When the Wallpaper* Architects’ Listing was conceived in 2000, it was constructed as our bespoke worldwide index of rising architectural expertise. Now in its twenty fifth version, our annual itemizing of promising practices from throughout the globe (now comprising over 500 alumni) champions the most effective and most promising younger studios – a snapshot of expertise showcasing inspiring work from all corners of the Earth with an emphasis on the residential realm.
This 12 months’s anniversary survey contains 30 younger studios (one for every of the 30 years of Wallpaper*), from Australia, Bahrain, Benin, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Denmark, Ecuador, Ghana, Greece, France, Ivory Coast, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Kuwait, India, Morocco, New Zealand, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Spain, Switzerland, the UK, the USA, and Vietnam. Welcome to the promise, concepts and thrilling structure of the Wallpaper* Architects’ Listing 2026.
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