The interactivity during Marcelo Barbosa’s English classes resulted in the translation into English for this volume that is an outspread of his master and doctoral research. Barbosa is a Mackenzie University professor and founding partner of Bacco Arquitetos Associados. During his research, he analyzed the architectural production by Adolf Franz Heep in light of the postwar development of the city of Sao Paulo, assisting in the construction of the emerging metropolis between 1945 and 1960.

With much unpublished information, the publication highlights Heep’s main projects, photographed by Ana Mello, and adds biographical information, analysing the various interlocutions in the architect’s work and their relationship with the city, as well as the cultural transposition, where a set of principles from his home environment, Germany of the 1920s and France of the 1930s, will have several adjustments to their intermingling with Brazil’s cultural environment.

The book was also launched in Portugal.