A Monthly Publication from GAVINHO Atelier

the Journal

A monthly correspondence from the studio. Essays, notes and conversations on architecture, biography, and the inhabitation of time.

Issue 002 May 2026 Lisboa
Foundational Text · Issue 000

On the Architectural Project of the We

On space as the material condition of the human, on the transactional turn of architecture, and on why this cannot continue. A foundational text, anterior to all editions.

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Issue 003 June 2026

against the house without
divisions

By Inês Gavinho · Praça da Alegria
Issue 003 · June 2026 · The Third Edition

Against the House Without Divisions

An essay on the founding confusion of modern domestic architecture — the confusion between formal modernism and programmatic modernism. On why Le Corbusier proposed two things at once, and history treated them as one. On Arendt and Alexander, on SANAA and Souto de Moura, on the counter-examples that always existed. A defence of the division as a position not aesthetic but political — against the total fungibility of domestic life, against the house as a permanently recyclable asset.

In this issue
  1. The founding confusionSection i. The Essay
  2. What each division keepsSection ii. The Essay
  3. There is a philosophical name for thisSection iii. The Essay
  4. The counter-examples always existedSection iv. The Essay
  5. The politics of the programmeSection v. The Essay
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The Archive
  1. 004 Appearance and Function June 2026 pp. 001–016
  2. 004-B Credit Due — companion to Issue 004 June 2026 pp. 001–012
  3. 003 Against the House Without Divisions June 2026 pp. 001–010
  4. 002 The Architecture of the Interval May 2026 pp. 001–012
  5. 001 On Inhabited Time April 2026 pp. 001–014
  6. 000 On the Architectural Project of the We — foundational text May 2026 pp. 001–006
A Continuous Archive

From the Notebook

Short pieces from the studio between issues. Observations, arguments, small refusals — written in the spaces the monthly edition cannot hold.

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Latest Entry · April 28
Not a Firm. An Ecosystem.
April 28, 2026 · By Inês Gavinho
About The Journal

The Journal is GAVINHO's monthly act of attention — a place to write down what the work is teaching us before the season forgets it.

Each issue carries an essay, a handful of notes from the studio, and a conversation. It is set in Cormorant Garamond and Quattrocento Sans, edited longhand, and published on the last Thursday of every month. The Journal is intentionally slow. We write what we would otherwise keep in a notebook.

Written by Inês Gavinho
Edited by Maria Gavinho
Published from Praça da Alegria, Lisboa