Rio de Janeiro attracts visitors from around the globe with its pristine beaches, lush tropical vegetation and unique urban setting. Brazilian modernism, as an architectural movement exemplified by Oscar Niemeyer, gained worldwide recognition in the 1960s. Many of the modernist buildings by Lucio Costa, Affonso Reidy, the Roberto Brothers, and landscapes by Roberto Burle Marx are exceptional architectural icons that architects from around the world should visit at least once in a lifetime.
The latest architectural highlights were built in view of the Football World Cup in 2014 and the OlympicGames 2016. Two of these projects, the Museum of Tomorrow by Santiago Calatrava and the Art Museum of Rio de Janeiro MAR by Bernardes Jacobsen Architects, are part of an urban development plan to convert the former industrial port area into a new center of life, business and culture. Brazil boasts numerous architectural monuments and a variegated urban history. Come and explore Rio de Janeiro in one of our suggested day tours, or in combination with other Brazilian cities such as São Paulo, Brasília and Belo Horizonte, in a multi-day trip throughout Brazil. We also offer bespoke corporate and academic travel.
Barbara Iseli
Jason Baumann
Uli Rentschler
Casa 101a Méier
20780-100
Rio de Janerio
RJ
Brazil
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Barbara Iseli
Barbara is a multilingual Swiss architect. She graduated at ETH Zurich, and considers herself a "Carioca de coração," a Rio de Janeiro-an by heart, with professional experience in Switzerland and Brazil. At Boltshauser Architects in Zurich, she was project manager for large-scale housing projects and won school building competitions in Uster, Switzerland, and a residential building complex in St. Gallen, Switzerland. In Rio de Janeiro, she was in charge of the conversion of the Swiss Consulate and the design of Swissnex Brazil. She is a founding partner and executive member of Insight Architecture and the architecture office, Plural Projetos Singulares, Rio de Janeiro. A native German speaker, Barbara also provides tours in English and Portuguese. She also speaks Italian, French, Dutch and Spanish.
Jason Baumann
After his BFA in Visual Communication at the Zurich University of Art and Design, Jason founded Popeye Ltd Design & Communications, an design agency in Zurich. He was in charge of creative direction and a member of the executive management. Later he completed an Executive MBA in New York and worked in the area of e-commerce. He is a founding partner and executive member of Insight Architecture and also a consultant in the field of strategy, IT and marketing in Switzerland and Brazil. He speaks native German, fluent English, Portuguese and Spanish and has advanced knowledge in French.
Uli Rentschler
Uli studied architecture in Karlsruhe, Germany. Her working experience includes German and Swiss architecture offices where she realized housing and commercial projects as project manager. In Brazil, before assuming its operational management, she was in charge of the restoration and retrofit works of a listed historic building that housed "Casa Daros", a museum of contemporary Latin-American art in Rio de Janeiro. At Rio's iconic Santiago Calatrava building "Museum of Tomorrow" she led the transition from the commissioning and construction phases to operational management during the Olympics as its operations manager. She is executive member and president of Insight Architecture and guides in German, Portuguese and English and has advanced knowledge in French and Spanish.