Translation
Architectures Collection
The challenge of translating for the community of architects with whom I coexisted while teaching at Escola da Cidade became an ethnographic research. “The Architectures Collection brings together works by Brazilian and foreign architects, and carries the editorial seal of Editora da Cidade. The books of the collection already released cover the works of the Brazilian architects Antonio Carlos Barossi and Salvador Candia, and the Paraguayan Solano Benítez. The project was designed by professors Anderson Freitas, Eduardo Ferroni, Carlos Ferrata, Cesar Shundi, Pablo Hereñu and Pedro Barros. The collection aims to produce architecture books as pedagogical research with the participation of the students advised by the faculty at Escola da Cidade. The publications are bilingual, translated into English by Professor Irene Sinnecker.”
read+: Antonio Carlos Barossi
“Architecture devides the air in lots and compartimentalises it into communicating vessels of life. An architect seeks ‘the breath of life’, the one that resists the exhaustion of the day-to-day, that makes the solidness of the matters that draw it, lose its seriousness and reveal the elusive human figure…Tata can do it.” Gal Oppido
read +: Solano Benitez
“In the mirror I’m there, in front, outside myself, inhabiting another dimension equated to everything else, it allows me to inhabit another world that is not inside myself on a level of equality and simultaneity, perhaps in the mirror we have a machine capable of allowing us to live differently with our loved… missing loved ones, that the obscenity of death took away from us… the impossible love, because we never find neither the space not the time to allow them to exist…” Solano Benitez
read+: Salvador Candia
“These are situations that marked and projected the desired changes by the ideology embraced by a group of professionals convinced that the time had come. We learn from these projects-situations that it is possible to negotiate with the ‘existing city’ by drawing from itself the necessary concepts to bring the desired change.” Regina Meyer
launching Solano Benitez (seated), from left: Pedro Barros, Cesar Schundi,
Carlos Ferrata, Anderson Freitas, Eduardo Ferroni, Pablo Hereñu, Ciro Pirondi, Irene Sinnecker.
André Vainer e Guilherme Paoliello
