International Open Call for Exhibitions and Activities
To explore concrete paths of transformation, the Biennale is structured into different programming modalities. In this call, specifically, proposals will be accepted for:
Exhibition
Exhibition of projects and plans, whether implemented or not, to be displayed on vertical panels, tables, or the floor using drawings, models, audiovisuals, texts, and other compatible media.
Experimental constructions and installations that utilize low-carbon materials and construction systems, to be presented inside or around Oca. These must be disassembled after the event.
Audiovisuals, films, and photographs to be displayed in the exhibition on vertical panels, tables, floors, or projections.
Activities
Workshops: Hands-on activities or work sessions held during the 14th BIAsp, involving pre-defined groups or open registration participants. Main outputs may be presented at Oca.
Labs: Similar to workshops but linked to ongoing academic research. Main outputs may be presented at Oca.
Performances: Live experiences combining visual, physical, spatial, and temporal elements, incorporating theater, dance, music, and visual arts.
Situated Actions: Activities designed to engage directly with the territory, taking place before and during the Biennale in various locations to foster active interaction with urban and social contexts.
For any questions, send an email to faleconosco@bienaldearquitetura.org.br.
Schedule
17.03
Start of registrations
17.03 – 01.06
Reception of proposals (new date)
30.06
Announcement of selection results (new date)
01.09
Start of work setup for the exhibition
18.09– 19.10
Exhibition and Activities Dates
20.10 – 31.10
Exhibition dismantling period
Result
See below the list of activities selected in the International Open Call for Exhibition and Activities.
We will soon have the results of the category facilities of the call for activities. The work is being evaluated for approval by the responsible bodies.
The International Open Call for Exhibition and Activities received over 450 entries from around the world. From these entries, the curatorial team selected 87 works for the exhibition and 45 for the activities, totaling 132 works that will be featured in the 14th São Paulo International Architecture Biennial at Oca, in Ibirapuera Park, starting September 18th.
This selection does not imply approval of the proposals and size of the content presented, which depend on the final configuration of the expographic project of the 14th BIAsp.
We thank all participants and congratulate those selected.
Result – Exhibition
1 – An architectural spacesuit for a Colombian rainforest
Proponent: Kurt Hollander
Country of Origin: USA | Residence: Colombia, Cali
2 – Bioclimatic practices at Studio Arthur Casas
Proponent: Studio Arthur de Mattos Casas
Country of origin: Brazil | Residence: Brazil, São Paulo
3 – Nature-based solutions in the peripheries: care and resilience infrastructures for territories at risk
Proponent: Carolina Jéssica Domschke Sacconi
Country of origin: Brazil | Residence: Brazil, São Paulo
4 – Itaipu Ecopark
Proponent: André Augusto Prevedello
Country of origin: Brazil | Residence: Brazil, Curitiba
5 – Research and development project (I+D) Muvee Panamá and urban proposal The green path Panama
Proponent: Jorge Isaac Perén Montero
Country of origin: Panama | Residence: Panama, Panama
6 – Farm monitoring system. La Chimba – Ecuador
Proponent: Florence Sobrero
Country of origin: Argentina | Residence: Ecuador, Quito
7 – Sanctuary tunnel garden
Proponent: Dame Simangunsong
Country of Origin: Indonesia | Residence: Indonesia, West Jakarta
8 – Floors in the sky: urban regeneration through rooftops
Proponent: Fernando Tulio Salva Rocha Franco
Country of origin: Brazil | Residence: Switzerland, Zurich
9 – School on the Providence Hill
Proponent: Mariana Valadao Meneguetti
Country of origin: Brazil | Residence: Brazil, Rio de Janeiro
10 – Quinchuyaku House
Proponent: Emilio Lopez
Country of origin: Ecuador | Residence: Ecuador, Quito
11 – MASP- 2 buildings, one museum
Proponent: Miriam Elwing
Country of origin: Brazil | Residence: Brazil, São Paulo
12 – EMPEPI – Professor Edson Pisan Municipal School
Proponent: Marcelo Palhares Santiago
Country of origin: Brazil | Residence: Brazil, Belo Horizonte
13 – After the office: unpacking Manhattan's modernist towers in transition
Proponent: Elena Guidetti
Country of origin: Italy | Residence: Italy, Turin
14 – Forest of festivities: ecological regeneration in a megacity
Proponent: Kareena Kochery
Country of Origin: India | Residence: India, Mumbai
15 – São Paulo and other fantastic cities
Proponent: Angela Leon
Country of origin: Spain | Residence: Spain, Madrid
16 – Landscape armor: green infrastructure on the slopes of Morro da Formiga
Proponent: Larissa de Paula Scheuer
Country of origin: Brazil | Residence: Brazil, Rio de Janeiro
17 – Our Ginga
Proponent: Luis Kessongo
Country of origin: Angola | Residence: Angola, Luanda, Kilamba centrality
18 – Post-extractivist imaginaries: ecotopias at the cultural limits of the global climate emergency
Proponent: Maximillian Nowotka and Gabriel Visconti Stopello
Country of origin: Venezuela | Residence: Mexico, Mexico City
19 – Life COSTAdapta
Proponent: Evelyn Alonso Rohner
Country of origin: Spain | Residence: Spain, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
20 – Cabin Zero
Proponent: Felipe Rio
Country of origin: Brazil | Residence: Brazil, Rio de Janeiro
21 – Japiim
Proponent: Tetro Arquitetura
Country of origin: Brazil | Residence: Brazil, Belo Horizonte
22 – Cultivating cities: riverside utopias to enchant territories
Proponent: Isabella De Bonis Silva Simões
Country of origin: Brazil | Residence: Brazil, São Paulo
23 – Taguaí Houses Prototypes in MLC
Proponent: Cristina Bemelmans Xavier
Country of origin: Brazil | Residence: Brazil, Carapicuíba
24 – Biophilia and sustainability in work environments
Proponent: Grazzieli Gomes Rocha
Country of origin: Brazil | Residence: Brazil, São Paulo
25 – Universidad Anahuac Mayab innovation laboratory and architecture school extension
Proponent: Augusto Quijano Axle
Country of origin: Mexico | Residence: Mexico, Merida Yucatan
26 – Catimbau House
Proponent: André Moraes de Almeida
Country of origin: Brazil | Residence: Brazil, Juazeiro do Norte
27 – Cultivating shade equity: shade houses for community planting and planning
Proposer: Lily Chishan Wong
Country of Origin: Hong Kong/USA | Residence: USA, New York
28 – Saracura House
Proponent: Marina Panzoldo
Country of origin: Brazil | Residence: Brazil, São Paulo
29 – Shapes Pakistan
Proponent: Joseph Luke Augustin
Country of origin: United Kingdom | Residence: United Kingdom, London
30 – PUI Santa Teresa
Proponent: Cassio Orlandi Sauer
Country of origin: Brazil | Residence: Brazil, Porto Alegre
31 – Forest gens: human-nature interrelations in the Amazon
Proponent: Gabriel Kozlowski
Country of origin: Brazil | Residence: Brazil, Rio de Janeiro
32 – More Favela, Less Trash
Proponent: Tiago Castelo Branco Lourenço
Country of origin: Brazil | Residence: Brazil, Sabará
33 – Jorge Machado Moreira Building: the project as an instrument for research into the conservation and sustainability of university heritage
Proponent: Aline Assis de Andrade
Country of origin: Brazil | Residence: Brazil, Rio de Janeiro
34 – The Performative Unit
Proponent: Yasamin Mayyas
Country of origin: USA | Residence: USA, New York
35 – Itararé Railway Park-SP
Proponent: São Paulo Canyons Association
Country of origin: Brazil | Residence: Brazil, Itararé
36 – Palma House
Proponent: Rodrigo de Francisco Ferreira and Oliveira
Country of origin: Brazil | Residence: Brazil, São Paulo
37 – Rural communities: villages, quilombos and settlements in Southwest São Paulo
Proponent: City School Association – Architecture and Urbanism
Country of origin: Brazil | Residence: Brazil, São Paulo
38 – Lagoa do Sino Library of Ufscar and Eco-Museum and Orla Piratininga Park
Proponent: Renata Castilho Gilio Goorden
Country of origin: Brazil | Residence: Brazil, Itatiba
39 – New headquarters of Greenpeace Brazil
Proponent: Lucas Augusto Barbosa Durães
Country of origin: Brazil | Residence: Brazil, São Paulo
40 – Woven breathing facade
Proponent: Ye sul Cho
Country of origin: Canada | Residence: United Kingdom, London
41 – Design for disaster
Proponent: Arhun Aksakal
Country of origin: Germany | Residence: Germany, Frankfurt am Main
42 – Aftermath of the climate crisis: Derinkuyu Revived
Proponent: Gurkan Maruf Mihci
Country of Origin: USA | Residence: Türkiye/USA, Indianapolis
43 – OPEN-GROUND
Proponent: Daniel Jacobs and Brittany Utting of HOME-OFFICE
Country of Origin: USA | Residence: USA, Houston
44 – Pavuna, Inhaúma and Costa Barros: three parks for the North Zone of Rio de Janeiro
Proponent: Bruno Amadei Machado
Country of origin: Brazil | Residence: Brazil, Rio de Janeiro
45 – Master plan for territorial planning and urban design to transform wetlands into territorial structures
Proponent: Nelly Paulina Espinosa Rojas
Country of origin: Chile | Residence: Chile, Concepción
46 – Your greenhouse is your living room
Proponent: Leyuan Li, Yue Xu and Jiaxun Xu
Country of Origin: China | Residence: USA, Denver
47 – Plan director Distrito Aragón Tecnológico César Alierta (DAT Alierta)
Proponent: Paco Alfaro Anguita
Country of origin: Spain | Residence: Spain, Madrid
48 – The EUREF Campus in Berlin – A monument from the fossil age becomes the realization of the vision of a zero-emission metropolis
Proponent: MarIn Gegner
Country of origin: Germany | Residence: Germany, Berlin
49 – ISTAT Headquarters
Proponent: Domenico Faraco
Country of origin: Italy | Residence: Italy, Rome
50 – Lelis House
Proponent: Valentin Brügger
Country of origin: Argentina | Residence: Argentina, Córdoba
51 – Housing First: responding to the housing and climate crisis
Proponent: Simone Ferreira Gatti
Country of origin: Brazil | Residence: Brazil, São Paulo
52 – Wasted no more
Proponent: José Herrasti
Country of origin: Mexico | Residence: USA, Los Angeles
53 – Pedra de Xangô Park. Urban and architectural valorization of natural and religious heritage of African origin
Proponent: Floriano Freaza Amoedo
Country of origin: Spain | Residence: Brazil, Salvador
54 – Confluences
Proponent: José Paulo Neves Gouvêa
Country of origin: Brazil | Residence: Brazil, São Paulo
55 – Cities in 21st Century soil: the case of urban Amazonia
Proponent: Felipe Correa
Country of origin: Ecuador | Residence: USA, New York
56 – Sports center in the Sonora Desert
Proponent: Fernanda Canales
Country of origin: Mexico | Residence: Mexico, Mexico City
57 – PMU Tuxtla
Proponent: Edgar Velasco Casillas
Country of origin: Mexico | Residence: Mexico, Mexico City
58 – Pantanal Action
Proponent: Afonso Celso Vanoni de Castro
Country of origin: Brazil | Residence: Brazil, São Paulo
59 – Water and urbanism: the Shenzhen Case
Proponent: Si LIU
Country of Origin: China | Residence: China, Shenzhen
60 – We are what we reside in
Proponent: Peter James Stutchbury
Country of Origin: Australia | Residence: Australia, Newport
61 – Urban design and landscaping – Nova Eldorado
Proponent: Felipe Nogueira Stracci
Country of origin: Brazil | Residence: Brazil, São Paulo
62 – Itaqui Innovation District
Proponent: Lourenço Urbano Gimenes
Country of origin: Brazil | Residence: Brazil, São Paulo
63 – The infinite time of perishable constructions and the reinvention of spaces by the Mebêngôkre
Proponent: Luisa Moreira Bogossian
Country of origin: Brazil | Residence: Brazil, Rio de Janeiro
64 – La Cuadrita – Asunción natural passage
Proponent: Miguel Angel González Merlo
Country of origin: Paraguay | Residence: Paraguay, Asunción
65 – Architecture in three periods: Banco dos Cajuais Visitor Center – AQUASIS
Proponent: Bruno Melo Braga
Country of origin: Brazil | Residence: Brazil, Fortaleza
66 – Requalification and reuse of the Iansã Module of the Faculty of Architecture of the Federal University of Bahia
Proponent: Sergio Kopinski Ekerman
Country of origin: Brazil | Residence: Brazil, Salvador
67 – Boulevard Saint Jude
Proponent: Luiz Sakata
Country of origin: Brazil | Residence: Brazil, São Paulo
68 – Freie Mitte, Vielseitiger Rand Ongoing Process of Implementation, Vienna
Proponent: Lina Streeruwitz
Country of origin: Austria | Residence: Austria, Vienna
69 – Urban Consortium Operation Regenerates Dilúvio – Porto Alegre/RS
Proponent: Marlon Rubio Longo
Country of origin: Brazil | Residence: Brazil, São Paulo
70 – Projects in Villages of the Tupiniquim Guarani Indigenous Land (ES) developed through participatory processes
Proponent: Anita Rodrigues Freire
Country of origin: Brazil | Residence: Brazil, Santos
71 – Future urban landscapes: Wenzhou 2050
Proponent: Evan Saarinen
Country of origin: China | Residence: USA, Los Angeles
72 – Sampa+Rural Program: agroecology in the fight against climate change
Proponent: Lia Palm
Country of origin: Brazil | Residence: Brazil, São Paulo
73 – Miguel de Cervantes Library
Proponent: Olivier Raffaëlli
Country of origin: France | Residence: Brazil, São Paulo
74 – Archipelagos of the River Sea
Proponent: Isabella Simões
Country of origin: USA | Residence: Brazil, Rio de Janeiro
75 – Realengo Park: between the project and local articulations
Proponent: Larissa Monteiro
Country of origin: Brazil | Residence: Brazil, Rio de Janeiro
76 – From incineration to integration
Proponent: Sunwoo Choi
Country of Origin: South Korea | Residence: South Korea, Nowon-gu
77 – Social housing: amphibious dwellings in the Amazon
Proponent: Bianca Cuvello Romano Veloso
Country of origin: Brazil | Residence: Brazil, Manaus
78 – Puerto Vivo | Pedagogical Infrastructures of the Alluvial Llanura of the Rìo Magdalena
Proponent: Laura Daniela Urueña Serna
Country of origin: Colombia | Residence: Colombia, Cali
79 – Piracicaba River linear park system – Urban, environmental and mobility structuring – Renato Wagner Park
Proponent: Fabiana T Stuchi
Country of origin: Brazil | Residence: Brazil, São Paulo
80 – A prototype pavilion in textile reinforced concrete (TRC)
Proponent: Patricia Guaita
Country of origin: Spain | Residence: Switzerland, Lausanne
81 – The will of the century
Proponent: Ketlyn Caroline Gonçalves de Freitas
Country of origin: Brazil | Residence: Brazil, São Paulo
82 – Working trees: multifunctional landscapes for a living planet
Proponent: Rural Architecture Integrated Planning Ltd.
Country of origin: Brazil | Residence: Brazil, São Paulo
83 – Forest Laboratory – Amelias of the Amazon
Proponent: Tales Albuquerque Kamel
Country of origin: Brazil | Residence: Brazil, Belém
84 – Águas do Cadaval: regeneration with traditional technologies
Proponent: João Pedro Manccini Fernandes
Country of origin: Brazil | Residence: Brazil, Guarulhos
85 – Collaborative production in the Solano Trindade occupation. FAU-UFRJ university extension in partnership with MNLM- National Movement for the Struggle for Housing
Proponent: Ana Slade
Country of origin: Brazil | Residence: Brazil, Rio de Janeiro
86 – Manancias Program – Executive Secretariat of the Housing Secretariat
Proponent: Maria Teresa Cardoso Fedeli
Country of origin: Brazil | Residence: Brazil, São Paulo
87 – Atreeum
Proponent: Koerner
Country of origin: Germany | Residence: Germany, Frankfurt
Result – Activities
1 – Architects and engineers facing climate challenges – student design workshop France/Brazil / 2025
Proponent: Cristina Garcez
Language: workshop
Country of origin: Brazil | Residence: Brazil, Bananal
2 – LEDE (La Estructura Del Espacio) / 2025
Proponent: Miguel Duarte
Language: workshop
Country of origin: Paraguay | Residence: Paraguay, Luque
3 – Workshop: observational drawing of Oscar Niemeyer’s works / 2025
Proponent: Leopoldo Schettino
Language: workshop
Country of origin: Italy | Residence: Brazil, São Paulo
4 – CLIMATE Platform / 2024
Proponent: Rejane Magiag Magiag Loura
Language: workshop
Country of origin: Brazil | Residence: Brazil, Belo Horizonte
5 – Atrai Bikes – Data collection and visualization with citizen technologies / 2024
Proponent: Artur Kim Shum
Language: workshop
Country of origin: Brazil | Residence: Germany, Berlin
6 – First half / 2025
Proponent: Alessio Mazzaro
Language: workshop
Country of origin: Italy | Residence: Italy, Turin
7 – Circular bamboo: participatory workshop for adapting installation structure into community furniture / 2025
Proponent: Ariel Ferrari
Language: workshop
Country of origin: Brazil | Residence: Brazil, São Paulo
8 – Invent(a) borders – Playing for multispecies cities / 2025
Proponent: Luciana Souza Bragança
Language: workshop
Country of origin: Brazil | Residence: Brazil, Belo Horizonte
9 – Reclaimed futures / 2025
Proponent: Arno De Ryst
Language: workshop
Country of origin: Sweden | Residence: Sweden, Stockholm
10 – Lecture on rivers and streets / Guajava and expedition through the waters of Ibirapuera / 2025
Proponent: José Roberto Marinho Bueno
Language: workshop
Country of origin: Brazil | Residence: Brazil, São Paulo
11 – Workshop on urban basin diagnosis with landscape information modeling (LIM) / 2023
Proponent: Tainah Frota Carvalho
Language: workshop
Country of origin: Brazil | Residence: Brazil, Fortaleza
12 – Confluences
Proponent: José Paulo Neves Gouvêa
Language: workshop
Country of origin: Brazil | Residence: Brazil, São Paulo
13 – Invisible water, divided city: dialogues and proposals for the Água Preta and Sumaré basins
Proponent: Renata Priore Lima
Language: workshop
Country of origin: Brazil | Residence: Brazil, São Paulo
14 – Imagining Architectures for a Warm World / 2025
Proponent: Victor Sardenberg
Language: workshop
Country of origin: Brazil | Residence: Brazil, São Paulo
15 – Urgent Panorama! Space as an Act of Permanence / 2025
Proponent: Cristina Wehba
Language: workshop
Country of origin: Brazil | Residence: Brazil, São Paulo
16 – Permeable Pavement Design Workshop / 2025
Proponent: Luciano Abbamonte da Silva
Language: workshop
Country of origin: Brazil | Residence: Brazil, São Paulo
17 – Essay for the Aftermath. Building as Mediation: Dialogues and Material Exchanges. / 2025
Proponent: Luciana da Silva Florenzano
Language: workshop
Country of origin: Brazil | Residence: Brazil, Florianópolis
18 – Every light we cannot see is a dawn – To imagine possible cities and create bags to carry them. / 2025
Proponent: Vivian Altebarmakian
Language: workshop
Country of origin: Brazil | Residence: Brazil, Florianópolis
19 – Terra em trama / 2025
Proponent: Marina Millani Oba
Language: workshop and situated actions
Country of origin: Brazil | Residence: Brazil, Curitiba
20 – Between blades and gaps: project models in Glulam / 2025
Proponent: Leticia de Oliveira Zampereti
Language: workshop
Country of origin: Brazil | Residence: Brazil, Curitiba
21 – The Sapateiro Stream passes through here / 2021
Proponent: Gabriel Neistein
Language: situated actions
Country of origin: Brazil | Residence: Brazil, São Paulo
22 – It’s there on Acaia Street / 2025
Proponent: Sofia Martins Monteiro Costa Pinto
Language: situated actions
Country of origin: Brazil | Residence: Portugal, Lisbon
23 – Laboratory: Bixiga River Territory Canudos Reforestation / 2025
Proponent: Clarissa Moraes Martins Morgenroth
Language: situated actions
Country of origin: Brazil | Residence: Brazil, São Paulo
24 – Pantanal Action / 2025
Proponent: Afonso Celso Vanoni de Castro
Language: situated actions
Country of origin: Brazil | Residence: Brazil, São Paulo
25 – Cart for Cinefluxo / 2025
Proponent: Victoria Reis Sousa e Braga
Language: situated actions
Country of origin: Brazil | Residence: Brazil, São Paulo
26 – Kinetic Plan / 2025
Proponent: Enzo Bailoni Pizano
Language: situated actions
Country of origin: Brazil | Residence: Brazil, Goiânia
27 – While the sun shines – Design workshop for intervention and use of the former building of the State Department of Public Health / 2025
Proponent: Gustavo Pires de Andrade Neto
Language: situated actions
Country of origin: Brazil | Residence: Brazil, Florianópolis
28 – Invisible Cities, Incredible People
Proponent: Bianca Moro de Carvalho
Language: audiovisual
Country of origin: Brazil | Residence: Brazil, Macapá
29 – Watery Memories of a Reimagined Pout
Proponent: Gabriel Teixeira Ramos
Language: audiovisual
Country of origin: Brazil | Residence: Brazil, Goiás
30 – Amazon Carpenters
Proponent: Luis Andre Guedes de Oliveira
Language: audiovisual
Country of origin: Brazil | Residence: Brazil, Belém
31 – Community civil defense plan for the Caiçara community of Ponta Negra / 2023
Proponent: Lara Aguiar Cavalcante
Language: audiovisual
Country of origin: Brazil | Residence: Brazil, São Paulo
32 – Agua Sana / 2025
Proponent: Rodrigo Santa Maria Monckeberg
Language: audiovisual
Country of origin: Chile | Residence: Chile, Santiago
33 – The choreography of crumbs: reconstructing territory through food / 2025
Proponent: David Menzi
Language: audiovisual and performance
Country of origin: Switzerland | Residence: Switzerland, Volketswil
34 – Saracura House / 2022
Proponent: Marina Panzoldo Canhadas
Language: audiovisual
Country of origin: Brazil | Residence: Brazil, São Paulo
35 – The weather is nice, let's panic! / 2025
Proponent: Helvijs Savickis
Language: audiovisual
Country of origin: Austria | Residence: Austria, Vienna
36 – Create in a network / 2024
Proponent: Flávia Schmidt de Andrade Lima
Language: book
Country of origin: Brazil | Residence: Brazil, Rio de Janeiro
37 – To remain in the no longer / 2023
Proponent: Joyce Joumaa
Language: audiovisual
Country of origin: Lebanon | Residence: Netherlands, Amsterdam
38 – TreesAI / 2021
Proponent: Sofia Valentini
Language: audiovisual
Country of origin: Brazil | Residence: Brazil, São Paulo
39 – Portraits of an Entanglement / 2025
Proponent: Michel Zisman Zalis
Language: audiovisual
Country of origin: Brazil | Residence: Germany, Berlin
40 – The Site: microscale for a changing world / 2000
Proponent: Paula Pereira
Language: audiovisual
Country of origin: Brazil | Residence: Brazil, Campinas
41 – The wave to come / 2025
Proponent: Moritz Maria Karl
Language: audiovisual
Country of origin: Germany | Residence: Germany, Berlin
42 – Inhabiting the hot – land, territory and memory / 2023
Proponent: Jean Guilherme Oliveira
Language: audiovisual
Country of origin: Brazil | Residence: Brazil, São Paulo
43 – Rehearsing green returns / 2025
Proponent: [Applied] Foreign Affairs
Language: audiovisual
Country of origin: Austria | Residence: Austria, Vienna
44 – Green Revolution and Farming / 2025
Proponent: Gian Spina
Language: performance
Country of origin: Brazil | Residence: Brazil, São Paulo
45 – Topologies of softness – Clouds, bodies of air & water / 2025
Proponent: Gabi Schillig
Language: performance
Country of origin: Germany | Residence: Germany, Berlin
Announcement (updated on 04/24/25)
For any questions, send an email to faleconosco@bienaldearquitetura.org.br.