Life
Coffee Time
Posted by Stefhanelle Laurel
What is coffee to an architect? A simple cup in the morning: the smell signaling a productive day ahead, the taste energizing. Yet, ironically, it is equally an architect’s opportunity for repose.
Life
In The Lab
Posted by Stefhanelle Laurel
Models, diagrams, sketches, renders – every architect has their own preferred expression of architecture. At CAZA, we don’t judge nor restrict, we embrace all methods.
Life
The Library
Posted by Stefhanelle Laurel
Since their inception, libraries have been a foundation for all disciplines of thought, the physical bricks of institutional and cultural knowledge.
Life
Crises and Regional Development: A Position and Approach
Posted by Carlos Arnaiz
According to expert opinion, a positive way of dealing with interruptions and breakdowns in the pathways of modernization that arise through crises such as pandemics, fiscal crashes and environmental imbalances, is…
Thoughts
On Practice in the Philippines
Posted by Carlos Arnaiz
We have worked for the last 5 years on projects in the Philippines—an archipelago located 5,000 miles away. On a map, the Philippines floats, just above the equator, more like a constellation than a country…
Life
What is Modular Design?
Posted by Carlos Arnaiz
We began with this question then steadily feel down the rabbit hole of academic cross-examination landing on its opposite: what, if anything, is NOT modular design? Isn’t design a process of modularization?
Thoughts
Attention, Artificial Intelligence, and Architecture: Contemporary Social Issues and the Solutions in Our Built Environment
Posted by Carlos Arnaiz
As we enter the age of artificial intelligence, our attention is being drawn further from the physical world with each new technological breakthrough.
Process
Facing Geometry
Posted by Carlos Arnaiz
Facing Geometry takes drawings from the first five years of CAZA’s studio and transforms them into an interactive art installation. A self-reflexive digital experience, the installation invites viewers to engage with…
Thoughts
On Beauty
Posted by Carlos Arnaiz
“Something beautiful fills the mind yet invites the search for something beyond itself, something larger or something of the same scale with which it needs to be brought into relation.
Process
CAZA Today
Posted by Stefhanelle Laurel
Commitment to a contemporary form of beauty – Our unprecedented connectivity begets greater isolation. We find it increasingly difficult to find common ground. Our environment is at risk of collapse.
Thoughts
Resetting the Blueprint — Building A Circular Economy through Metabolic Design
Posted by Carlos Arnaiz
As the world increasingly faces environmental challenges, CAZA leads the new wave of Metabolic Design—a vision rooted in renewal and responsibility.
Life
Attention is all we need
Posted by Carlos Arnaiz
What our brains can learn from our buildings? “Attention is the thing we offer, that we owe most to the world we live in… I do find it the regulatory ideal.
Life
Introduction to CAZA
Posted by Carlos Arnaiz
“Cooking is the language through which society unconsciously reveals its structure” -Claude Levi-Strauss Our stance on authenticity stems from a love affair with the primitive forms found in the dustbins of Euclidean…
Life
Failure
Posted by Carlos Arnaiz
How do we make sense of failure? Most of our projects will be stymied or interrupted. Near bankruptcy seems endemic to a new architecture practice.
Life
Looseness
Posted by Carlos Arnaiz
1 looseness. Relaxation 2 pull back fast after contact 3 constant rhythm 4 move right when you want to hit left. 5 protect but open.