HEEP

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With much unpublished information, the publication highlights Heep’s main projects, photographed by Ana Mello, and adds biographical information, analysing the various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.

Smell of Woods and Soil

The folkloric and fun language of the Brazilian country opera was a challenging pleasure, thank you dear student Gina Falcão for the invite and great honor to participate in this project and translate it into English.

“the function of music is to free us from the tyranny of conscious thought.
what is music? the innumerable voices of eternity!”
Beecham

Madai

What an immesurable pleasure to translate into portuguese such a fundamental saying for the Brazilian feminist community.

evidences

CATALOG OF RAINWATER RESERVOIRS OF SÃO PAULO

MARÍLIA FRANCO
NATALIA VIDIGAL COACHMAN

This work began in the discipline Vertical Studio of the first term of 2013 at Escola da Cidade, School of Architecture and Urbanism, with the group composed by the students: Marília Franco, Natalia Coachman, Raquel Pavanelli, Johanna Miklos and Claudia Mezquita. It was based on the study entitled “Study for technical, economic and environmental pre-viability for the metropolitan waterway ring”, developed in 2011 by the research group in architecture design of urban fluvial infrastructures, Grupo Metrópole Fluvial, from the Department of Design of the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism of the University of São Paulo (FAU-USP).

architecture is a form of knowing & occupy sp

Translation of these publications by the discipline Estúdio Vertical at the school of Architecture and Urbanism Escola da Cidade.

“By valuing students’ autonomy in the construction of their research, the Vertical Studio encourages and enables diversity in the responses to a conceptual theme that is defined each semester, from the formulation of “questions” and ways of acting in an “extended field” of architecture, to the adoption of different means of representation and language as forms of expression.

During the first semester of 2018, the EV and the XIII International Seminar, from the motto “Architecture is a form of knowing”, have developed diverse researches through integrated work among professors, guests, assistants and students, as we can learn from the small selection in this catalog.

From the motto “Occupy SP”, proposed by the EV in the second semester of 2018, some new researches have begun and are represented in this catalog, as they will be present in the exhibition of the XIV International Seminar –“Still the right to the city?” to be held at Escola da Cidade in February 2019, being the basis for the proposals to be developed in the SI week itself and also for the first semester of the EV.”

Shundi Iwamizu and Francisco Fanucci

the senses of living

Joana Mello’s classes evolved into consulting for a congress presentation at the University of California; and then into translation of this article into English published in FAU-USP’s Journal of the Postgraduate Program in Architecture and Urbanism

“the senses of living in three acts: representation, comfort and privacy”

by Joana Mello de Carvalho e Silva

and Pedro Beresin Schleder Ferreira

read: https://www.revistas.usp.br/posfau/article/view/118341/136414


Field Book

Field book is the result of an invitation I made to seven civil construction workers to draw their work routines at the construction site into sketchbooks during one month. The idea came from reading the book I swear I saw this, by the Australian anthropologist Michael Taussig. In it, Taussig wonders if the drawings and scribbles he has performed in his own field books have ethnographic value.

Vânia Medeiros

The field book, by Vânia Medeiros, is not sponsored by the marketing of construction companies; on the contrary, surprisingly, it is the result of a Term of Conduct Adjustment (TAC), initiated by means of a denunciation by the Civil Construction Union of Guarulhos and formalized by the Public Ministry of Labor. Thus, Field book, its accomplishment and publication were not financed by companies or via Rouanet Law. They were made with TAC funds, collected from the company that committed the labor crime and, therefore, does not use tax exemptions, or requires its logo to be displayed in the exhibit and catalog of the works. This sui generis repair is being carried out by the Contracondutas Group from Escola da Cidade, in partnership with the course on History of Art at the Federal University of São Paulo. Contracondutas has selected, by means of edict, artists interested in proposing works that would problematize the work conditions on construction sites. Vânia Medeiros was one of the selected artists. The whole project has six artists and collectives performing on the same theme, with their own projects but in dialogue, a website, with research and debate material, involving Escola da Cidade, Unifesp and external collaborators.

                                                                       Pedro Fiori Arantes