SAME Architects Braga, Portugal
SAME

Perspectives

Essay · 6 min · Apr 2026

On the patience of concrete

What changes in the body of a building between the day it is poured and the day it is opened.

Notebook · 3 min · Mar 2026

Three brass lamps, in praise of

A small library of objects we keep returning to, and why.

Conversation · 12 min · Feb 2026

With Marta, our gardener

Working alongside the only person on every site whose work outlasts ours.

Field notes · 4 min · Jan 2026

Floating House, two winters in

Returning to a finished project in the season we never see during construction.

Essay · 9 min · Dec 2025

Drawing by hand, still

Why we begin every project with the same yellow tracing paper, and what it gives us.

Process · 7 min · Nov 2025

The brief we send our clients

The questions we ask before we draw a single line — and the ones we have learned to leave out.