House for elderly people
The project is based on a attentive reading of the life of a very specific kind of community, a sort of a micro-society with its own rules. It is a program, somewhere in between...
Niquia Residencial Complex
The project comprised the building of a small community with 13 dwellings, capable of preserving, protecting, integrating and enhancing the environmental heritage of the hills around Bogotá.
The area is characterized by the typical vegetation...
Metchosin House
The question of site is fundamental and constitutes more than examining the context that surrounds a project. Site should be understood as being constantly in flux, evolving with a design and beyond construction. The...
Atelier Katharina Grosse
The studio is located not far from Berlin’s central train station, in a part of the city that has been characterized since the mid-nineteenth century by large complexes of urban infrastructure. These include the...
The constructive sense of Nervi’s icons on show in Rome
Two clear and evident aspects represent the common denominator of the 14 works by Pier Luigi Nervi presented at the MAXXI in Rome, in the exhibition curated by Carlo Olmo, Sergio Poretti and Tullia...
Riverside Museum
The historical development of the Clyde and the city is a unique legacy; with the site situated where the Kelvin flows into the Clyde the building can flow from the city to the river....
Private house
The interest for contemporary art is growing in the present-day society. The emerging tendency seems to be to replace products with experiences: less shopping, and more stimuli for the eyes, the ears and the...
São Paulo: the difference between city and metropolis
I may describe Sao Paolo with the eyes of a traveller, because it is impossible for a foreigner to acquire, in a short while, the privilege of discovering this urban conglomerate with the awareness...
São Paulo: urban structure of territorial extension
The geographic position of the city of São Paulo has played a strategic role in aiding the penetration of the internal regions of the continent during the period of the Portuguese colonization, and it...
São Paulo: transformation and preservation for a cosmopolitan culture
To realize itself, Brazil needs lyrism, an ability to forget itself, and as to virtues, an ability to surpass itself. Its modern architecture is a masterly lesson of these two redeeming requirements.
Anísio Teixeira (Brazilian...
The need of a urban planning culture
Marco Casamonti: We often have a superficial vision of São Paulo; a big problem consists of the old town, which is very beautiful but hard to renovate, and then the traffic, the quality of...