Elegant, calm, minimalist, clean and beautiful are among the adjectives that can be used to describe almost all of Marcio Kogan’s much publicized and much awarded residential masterpieces.
The magnificent, streamlined residences must serve as an antidote of some sort to the Brazilian architect who has been quoted as saying that he loves his home town of São Paulo and New York because they are similar in their chaotic ugliness, and because he likes “energy, chaos and a multi-cultural population in a city.”
Out of this chaos, humour and cinema loving creative mind, an astonishingly lovely, peaceful balance is projected onto residential projects.
Reviewers of Kogan’s work often mention Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Frank Lloyd Wright or their contemporaries, but Kogan has said that he is more inspired by Ingmar Bergman, Federico Fellini and Andy Warhol.
However, the 57-year-old Brazilian-born and educated Kogan does have a modernist approach, and he has described the work of fellow Brazilians of modernist ilk -- Lucio Costa, Oscar Niemeyer, Lina Bo Bardi and Vilanova Artigas – as incredible.
The Paraty House, pictured here, is located on one of the hundreds of islands near the colonial town of Paraty, close to Rio de Janeiro. Before it was completed, Kogan predicted that it was to be his favourite house. Its simple premise is two large drawers pushed into the hill and connected by an internal staircase.
Its elegance comes from the seamless link between indoors and out, from the use of native wood, stone and vegetation, and from the minimalist, sweeping vistas that make so many of Kogan’s houses appear as if they were either taking off or recently landed. And although the stacked-boxes style is starting to wear thin as style-du-jour, this is surely one of its best examples.
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This is definately paradise lost over here. It is so beautiful. Do you aspire to live in a home like that blogger?
Well... I dont want to seem pretentious or anything / but I would love to end up living in a house like that. It has my name written all over it:) Plus I love Brazil / I always wanted to visit São Paulo - take a nice walk down the beach towards the slums. I just want to breath it all in you know. Life. Im in love with minimalism. The concept became a part of who I am and I dont ever want to even consider going back lol. Just look at those two slots. Beautful design. In hamrony with nature as well. Awesome:)
I so feel you on the exotic location and the minimilistic beauty combined with elements of nature and I too would love a pad like that? I'm just vain like that you know lol
I'm not too keen on the slums though I would however like to hang out in the rainforest that'll be really cool
Do you know that lumber companies target the natives in those regions? I mean seriously. They've been living their since forever already and that rainforest is so their mall. Everything they need is in there. But now large comapanies are destroying their habitat and if they do anything to defend it they are "TAKEN CARE OF" it's really demented how commercialism destroys humanity don't you think?
Anyway cool architecture. I would so love to be on the Island right now and I wouldn't even mind being chased by the smoke monster lol
I so feel you on that cubbz. I cant wait till you see what new posts I have in my mind. Its going to knock your cute pink stripe socks off your little milky feet lol / just make sure you check it out k.
Peace:)
That is so weird! I'm so wearing pink and white stripey socks hehehhehe we are such freaks do you know that? Really super suave ones at that :)