[EN] The SESC Pompeia by Lina Bo Bardi has largely collected in part those conditions the virtues of the city of São Paulo, from the environmental to the poetic. Clearly, the building is the trace, the fi ngerprint of the ...

[EN] The use of reinforced concrete precedes the modern design in Brazil, but it has embedded itself so fi rmly in the current idea of “modern Brazilian architecture” that it has become almost a metonymy: the material by ...

[EN] Spatial openness is a major characteristic of the buildings of Paulo Mendes da Rocha. But this is not merely a spatial-aesthetical decision; it reflects also a socio-political vision. This attitude refers to all scales ...

[EN] In the late 1980’s Brazil rebuilds its democracy and starts a new process of socio-economic development and international integration. In architecture, after nearly two decades of crisis, criticism, and even some ...

[EN] By the 1960s, Brutalism was a label shared by many architects in many countries. There are good reasons for continuing to employ that label; most obvious among them is the marked similarity of the visual aspect of ...