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Crises and Regional Development: A Position and Approach

Life

Crises and Regional Development: A Position and Approach

Posted by Salvador Orara

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…

On Practice in the Philippines

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…

What is Modular Design?

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?

Attention, Artificial Intelligence, and Architecture: Contemporary Social Issues and the Solutions in Our Built Environment 

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.

Facing Geometry

Process

Facing Geometry

Posted by Salvador Orara

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…

On Beauty

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.

CAZA Today

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.

Eco-park zone with biomorphic research domes, reforestation belts, and public trails at Lurín Eco-Industrial Park.

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.

CAZA Studio

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.

CAZA Studio

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…

CAZA Studio

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.

CAZA Studio

Life

Looseness

Posted by Carlos Arnaiz

1 looseness. Relaxaxtion  2 pull back fast after contact 3 constant rhythm 4 move right when you want to hit left. 5 protect but open.

CAZA Studio

Life

Making The Shot While Falling: On Iversonian 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.

CAZA Studio

Life

On Innovation

Posted by Carlos Arnaiz

We have started to doubt the innovation narrative. What if our thirst for the cutting edge is misguided? What if all this running does not bring us to the front?

CAZA Studio

Life

Slip Left then Punch Right: Anticipating Volatility 

Posted by Carlos Arnaiz

“To gaze in on another may be an inadequate path to understanding, but in the case of boxing, it might be the only one” -Christopher Bedford Boxing is probably our earliest form of civilized combat.

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