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.

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By Inês Gavinho · Praça da Alegria
Issue 001 · April 2026 · The Inaugural Edition

On Inhabited Time

A meditation on what it means to design not rooms, but the hours that pass within them — and why the studio refuses to separate the line from the stone. The first issue inaugurates The Journal with an essay on architecture as biography, three notes from the sample drawer, and a conversation with the founder of the atelier on what has, and has not, changed in thirty-five years of practice.

In this issue
  1. On Inhabited TimeBy Inês Gavinho The Essay
  2. From the Sample DrawerThree short notes The Notes
  3. A Letter to the Daughter Who Now DrawsWith Maria Gavinho The Conversation
  4. Six Things We Have Decided Not to DoApril 2026 The Studio Discipline
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The Archive
  1. 003 On the Honest Photograph June 2026 —
  2. 002 On Stone, Slowly May 2026 —
  3. 001 On Inhabited Time April 2026 pp. 001–014
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 · N° 03
The Gap That Should Not Exist
April 12, 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