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

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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.

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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.

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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…

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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?

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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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Life

Overlay

Posted by Carlos Arnaiz

Our first job is to stack one thing on top of another without seeking alignment. This doesn’t block or cancel the previous layer—it multiplies the original through a deliberately crooked repetition.

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Life

On Practice

Posted by Carlos Arnaiz

We have worked for the last 5 years on projects in the Philippines—an archipelago located 5,000 miles away from our studio in Brooklyn.

Aerial panorama of CAZA’s LIC Oyster—mixed-use towers and mid-rises with green roofs on the Queens waterfront.

Thoughts

Eco-Industrialization

Posted by Carlos Arnaiz

Our communities have always been mixed-use. Environmental volatility requires more from our settlements. They need to be both diverse and compact.

Aerial dusk view of serrated metal pavilions encircling a preserved house on a hillside, with a glass block and city skyline beyond.

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Regenerative Health

Posted by Carlos Arnaiz

We are living longer. Scientific breakthroughs are coming faster. The prospect of actively aging communities with unique needs is a challenge we have not faced.

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