Legacy ER, a freestanding emergency room and urgent-care facility, stops traffic in Allen, Texas, with an angular folded roof of zinc panels and perforated screens.

Occupying nearly half of the South American landmass and containing more than 50 percent of the continent's population, Brazil seems at first glance to be a market ripe for foreign architects. 

With the centenary of her birth this year, Italian-born Brazilian architect Lina Bo Bardi (1914–1992) is finally receiving the overdue international recognition she deserves.

Pedro Rivera is a graduate of the architecture program at the Federal University in his native Rio de Janeiro.

These are exciting times in Brazil. Next month, the country will host a party of global proportions when 12 of its cities stage soccer's World Cup. 

Arthur Casas is a graduate of the renowned architectural program at Mackenzie University in São Paulo and an heir to the city's Modernist traditions. While he is one of Brazil's most sought-after residential designers, his work also includes larger multi'family, commercial, and institutional projects. 

Tucked between lushly vegetated sand dunes and the Atlantic Ocean, the Mãe Luiza favela spills out from the fringes of Natal, a city of 800,000 people in northeastern Brazil.