By Guilherme Lassance, Pedro Varella & Cauê Costa Capillé

Metropolitan Rio: Guide for an Architecture is the result of an extensive body of research that pursued two main problems: first, what are the architectural qualities of Rio de Janeiro?; and secondly, how can these qualities be studied from existing buildings? The book is divided into two main parts: a theoretical debate on the evolution of Rio; and</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: small;"> secondly, a collection of buildings that map its metropolitan qualities and present them through precise representation.</span>