Arquicast speaks with one of Brazil's most intriguing and renowned architects, Eduardo Longo. Describing any professional's body of work is a complex task, but it is especially challenging when discussing a figure like Longo, whose career is defined by a rejection of the established principles of his time, consistently seeking innovation and experimentation in architecture.
Even as a student at the School of Architecture and Urbanism at Mackenzie Presbyterian University in São Paulo, Eduardo Longo distanced himself from the canons of the so-called Escola Paulista. While modernist and rationalist architecture predominated, Longo dared to design projects with independent forms, acute and obtuse angles, incorporating multifaceted roofs and minimal openings on surfaces—an approach that drew criticism and resistance from both faculty and the student body.
