Marcio Kogan

Marcio Kogan (born March 6, 1952, São Paulo) is a Brazilian architect and filmmaker best known for his work on private homes and retail design.

In 2012, Studio MK27 was selected to represent Brazil at the Venice Biennale of Architecture, exhibiting at the national pavilion curated by Lauro Cavalcanti, alongside an installation by Lúcio Costa.

[1] Kogan's projects are characterized by their high level of detail, formal simplicity, strong relations between inside and outside, focus on thermal comfort through passive sustainability, use of pure volumes, and the application of traditional elements such as mashrabiyas, as well as by functional internal plans.

In 1983, the two made another short film, now in 35mm, “Idos com o Vento”, which received a prize at the Gramado Festival and at the Ibero-American Cine Huelva in Spain.

[3] Five years later, they launched their first and only long-feature, Fire and Passion (1988),[4] with a star-filled cast that included Mira Haar, Cristina Mutarelli, Carlos Moreno, Rita Lee and Fernanda Montenegro.

Other than there solo projects, he also did with Weinfeld the Goldfarb House in 1989, which brought references of Vila Arpel From the film My Uncle by Jacques Tati.

The work system adopted gave greater freedom as well as responsibility to the architects, who have also now become co-authors of the projects, signing together with Kogan.

In 2011, Kogan was selected to be an Honorary Member of the American Institute of Architects (AIA), also given to another Brazilian, Angelo Bucci, that same year.

The office is comprised, besides Marcio Kogan, by Beatriz Meyer, Carlos Costa, Carolina Castroviejo, Constanza Cortes, Diana Radomysler, Eduardo Chalabi, Eduardo Glycerio, Elisa Friedman, Eline Ostyn, Gabriel Kogan, Giovanni Meirelles, Lair Reis, Laura Guedes, Luciana Antunes, Márcio Tanaka, Maria Cristina Motta, Mariana Ruzante, Mariana Simas, Oswaldo Pessano, Pedro Ribeiro, Renata Furlanetto, Samanta Cafardo and Suzana Glokowski.