Marcio Kogan in the series Architects Brazil

The series Architects, an original production by Gallery, crosses the Atlantic and arrives in Brazilian territory for its second season, maintaining the same commitment: to reveal, with precision and depth, what lies behind the architecture that marks time and transforms landscapes.

In the first season, we explored the restrained gestures of Siza, the poetic density of Aires Mateus, the specific materiality used by Carlos Castanheira, and the beauty of form in the work of Mário Martins, Vasco Vieira, and Vitor Vilhena, all narrated by the host of the series, architect and professor Nuno Ladeiro. Now, the series dives into Brazil, and among the names selected is Márcio Kogan, an architect whose work, although internationally recognized, still holds nuances that the documentary seeks to uncover.

His architecture, marked by formal rigor, minimal elegance, and an absolute mastery of light, reflects a kind of constructed cinema. Each frame, each axis, each void seems choreographed by an invisible camera that anticipates movement, gaze, and emotion. His work speaks of shadow, of time, and of human scale. But it also speaks of Brazil, the sophisticated, precise, silently tropical Brazil.

The episode dedicated to Kogan in the Architects series is not a portrait. It is an invitation to listen. To listen to a creative process that emerges among models, memories, and discipline; among references from modernist cinema and deeply authorial gestures. And by his side, two female voices whisper the sensitivity that brings Studio MK27’s architecture to life: Suzana Glogowski and Diana Radomysler.

Suzana Glogowski, a partner at the studio since 2002, serves as Architecture Director, leading residential, hospitality, and cultural projects with a unique combination of volumetry and landscape integration. Her career includes international experience, and it was with Kogan that she helped redesign the creative structure of the office, elevating the concept of co-creation from the early years.

Diana Radomysler, a partner since the 1990s and Director of Interiors, is behind award-winning projects such as Flat #6, winner of the 2023 BLT Built Design Awards. The space, explored through details of light, textures, and a familiar atmosphere, is portrayed as an invitation to read architecture with the body, not just with the eyes.

On screen in Architects Brasil, Kogan does not appear alone. Glogowski and Radomysler act as counterpoints that reveal the depth of the studio’s creative process. If Kogan establishes architecture as gesture, Suzana suggests the arrangement of those gestures in space, and Diana studies the interior, where architecture meets sensation, memory, and the rituals of domestic life.

This episode, clearly positioned to resonate globally, offers more than an architectural portrait. It is a lesson in convergence of thought, genuine collaboration, and collective creation.

To think of architecture as a cinematic script. — Marcio Kogan

The Architects series thus becomes a living archive of contemporary architecture, where each episode is a testimony to its creators. This content is not only for architects. It is for anyone who wishes to understand the gesture before the form. For those interested in how a line can translate a way of being in the world.

With its premiere scheduled for late 2025, the new season reaffirms Gallery’s role as a platform for culture, art, and audiovisual curation. And places Brazil and Marcio Kogan at the center of a narrative in dialogue with the world.