%0 Journal Article %T Athenaeum of twenty-first-century architecture: Rio de Janeiro %A Jagiełło-Kowalczyk, Magdalena %A Avsec, Stanislav %A Leszczyńska, Maja %J Housing Environment %V 2020 %R 10.4467/25438700SM.20.030.12894 %N 32/2020 %P 99-109 %K Architecture Athenaeum, Rio de Janeiro, twenty-first century %@ 1731-2442 %D 2020 %U https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/srodowisko-mieszkaniowe/article/athenaeum-of-twenty-first-century-architecture-rio-de-janeiro %X This paper presents the outcomes of a study on the potential of contemporary Rio de Janeiro to act as a site for a twenty-first century project. An analysis of the city’s architecture in the context of social, spatial and wildlife-related determinants and an analysis of extant major culture-forming places became the starting point for determining conceptual guidelines for the competition design of the Architecture Athenaeum in Rio de Janeiro, which has been presented in the paper. The research was based on critical analysis of the literature and on-site studies.