A Monthly Publication from GAVINHO Atelier

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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 002 May 2026

the architecture of the
interval

By Inês Gavinho · Praça da Alegria
Issue 002 · May 2026 · The Second Edition

The Architecture of the Interval

An essay on what happens between two events. On the time before narrative, on the silence that makes music audible, and on the breath that suspends, involuntarily, when a space has done its work. The second issue extends the inaugural meditation on inhabited time toward a more precise question: not the time that flows, but the time that stops — the pause, the corridor, the threshold, the shadow before the room. A typology, in four parts, with Tanizaki, Bachelard, Heidegger and Pallasmaa as quiet companions.

In this issue
  1. Apnea — the Symptom of SpaceSection i. The Essay
  2. Ma — the Japanese Name for SilenceSection ii. The Essay
  3. Before NarrativeSection iii. The Essay
  4. A Typology of the IntervalSection iv. The Essay
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The Archive
  1. 003 On the Honest Photograph June 2026
  2. 002 The Architecture of the Interval May 2026 pp. 001–012
  3. 001 On Inhabited Time April 2026 pp. 001–014
  4. 000 On the Architectural Project of the We — foundational text May 2026 pp. 001–006
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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