Carazo Arquitectura is featured in Jutaku Kenchiku, one of Japan’s long-standing architecture publications, with more than 50 years of editorial history. The April 2026 issue (No. 516) closes the series “Forest, People and Architecture — Costa Rica: The Current State of Architectural Thought Coexisting with the Environment” with a feature on our work: “Architecture That Negotiates with the Tropics: Rodrigo Carazo’s Architectural Philosophy.”
Across eighteen pages, the article presents three projects: our office in San José, where planted courtyards, a green wall and a roof garden bring nature back into the city; Casa Chavarría, a home in Cóbano organized around an interior garden; and Casa Murray Music, an experimental house in Heredia.
It includes an in-depth interview with Rodrigo Carazo, “Architecture that weaves in time: nature, memory and layers of space,” covering his upbringing in San José, the studio’s biophilic design method and the search for a new relationship between city and nature.
Planning, editing and interview: Toshiya Ochiai. Photography: Taku Hata.
