The Fundação Bienal de São Paulo is hosting the fourth meeting of the Pavilhão Aberto 2022 program, which aims to open the historic Ciccillo Matarazzo Pavilion—designed by architect Oscar Niemeyer and located within Ibirapuera Park—for public access. The event offers free programming, including games for children, guided tours, and conversations with guest speakers. Visitors can also explore content regarding the history of the Biennials, interacting with the building's architecture through a series of QR codes distributed across the columns.
The Galeria da Cidade is hosting the exhibition Lelé: um Projeto de Brasil (Lelé: A Project for Brazil), featuring the work of architect João da Gama Filgueiras Lima. The exhibition presents and honors a career spanning over half a century, celebrating an architect who masterfully united conception, design, and construction, always with a focus on climatic conditions and a dialogue with geography, energy efficiency, and raw material conservation. The virtual opening will take place on February 11 at 6:00 PM on the Escola da Cidade YouTube channel. The exhibition runs from February 12 to May 20, 2022, with free admission and mandatory mask-wearing.
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TOROO Pavilion, by Kristof Crolla and Garvin Goepel
Set within a Mixed Reality (MR) context, the AA Visiting School São Paulo 2022 will utilize Augmented Reality (AR) technology to develop complex geometries constructed from bamboo. This year, the design and fabrication of these parametric structures will be led by architects Kristof Crolla and Garvin Goepel, employing both analog and digital techniques. Projects will be developed using Rhinoceros, Grasshopper, Kangaroo, and Karamba, and constructed with the aid of Fologram, holographic devices (Microsoft HoloLenses), and smartphones.
Painting by Almir Mendes de Souza, part of the exhibition. Photo: Courtesy of the organization
Curated by art historian and critic Enock Sacramento, one of the leading experts on these modernist currents in Brazilian art, the exhibition marks the opening of the Sala Guido Arturo Palomba. This space pays tribute to the forensic psychiatrist, a renowned expert in legal medicine and the cultural director of the Pinacoteca of the Associação Paulista de Medicina (APM).
RUÍNA MATERIAIS Opening + Launch of the 2022 Material Reuse Catalog
The RUÍNA Materiais Catalog is an initiative that aims to rethink construction and demolition materials through the lens of REUSE. By selecting materials ready for reintroduction into projects, construction sites, or directly into homes, workplaces, and beyond, RUÍNA seeks to encourage circular production chains, helping to reduce the volume of demolition waste while providing quality materials with minimal environmental impact. We seek partnerships with initiatives involved in the disposal, dismantling, or demolition of spaces, as well as with producers who have surplus materials without a designated use.
Educational institutions, community leaders, and professional organizations mobilize around the debate on social housing and public policy in the city center.
Educational institutions, community leaders, and professional organizations are mobilizing around a debate on social housing and public policy in city centers. Featuring over 60 speakers, the event will take place in May in a remote format; registration is free and open to the public.
Poster for the course 'AUH0545-Learning from the Commons: CO-CITIES/Co-Creating the Common Good'. Ana Rosa Chagas Cavalcanti, 2022.
AUH0545 LEARNING FROM THE COMMONS: CO-CITIES/CO-CREATING THE COMMON GOOD (Experimental course for the co-creation of cities, open to the general public and students outside the USP community)
As part of its centennial celebrations, Liga Solidária is launching a competition to select an architectural design for a new 4,000-square-meter Cultural, Social, and Sports Complex to be built at the Educandário Dom Duarte in São Paulo.
Guto Requena with virtual reality goggles in his studio
Estudio Guto Requena is opening its creative hub—a historic mansion in downtown São Paulo—to the public for the first time, showcasing projects and works developed through research at Juntxs.Lab, its laboratory for empathy, design, and technology studies. The studio will host guided tours on September 8 as part of the DW! 22 program at Rua Major Diogo, 91, in Bela Vista, by appointment.
View of the exhibition 'FARSA. Language, fracture, fiction: Brazil - Portugal'. Exhibition design developed by Helena Cavalheiro in association with Juliana Ziebell. 2019. Photo: Ilana Bessler
with Helena Cavalheiro and guests online course 14 SESSIONS APRIL 25 and 28 MAY 02, 05, 09, 12, 16, 23, and 30 JUNE 06, 13, 20, and 27 JULY 04 Mondays, 7:00 PM to 9:30 PM Thursdays, 7:00 PM to 9:30 PM (Thursday sessions occur only during the first three weeks, given the theoretical nature of the course's beginning) R$1,700.00 in up to 8 interest-free installments
Official event poster. Photo: Summer School. Graphic production: Antonio Neto
The skin sees, the eye thinks. Space—and therefore place—is perceived through all the senses. What influences this perception? How can the senses be stimulated to think and, in doing so, open new perspectives of perception? We aim to experience, capture, and understand this mutual influence in an experimental, playful, and unique way: a sensitive representation of the history of Presidente Prudente: THE THINKING SENSES.
The Fundação Bienal de São Paulo invites the city's residents, especially those who frequent Ibirapuera Park, to experience the Ciccillo Matarazzo Pavilion in a new way. This initiative is part of the second edition of the Pavilhão aberto [Open Pavilion] program, running from May to November. It will feature conversations with a diverse range of guests—from architecture professor Guilherme Wisnik to Father Júlio Lancellotti—as well as workshops for children, guided tours of the Pavilion, and supplementary digital content.
On August 2nd, we will talk with designer Lilian Santos, an expert in interior finishes and founder of @revestindoacasa, to discuss the most common mistakes professionals make when specifying finishes.
On Saturday, July 16, starting at 10:00 AM, the Fundação Bienal de São Paulo hosts the third meeting of the Open Pavilion 2022 program. The initiative aims to open the historic Ciccillo Matarazzo Pavilion—designed by architect Oscar Niemeyer and located within Ibirapuera Park—to the public, while offering free programming including dance workshops, children's activities, guided tours, and open discussions.
Drawing: Jacopo Galli and Luna Rajab - sketch for syria | Graphic Production: Antonio Neto
The urgent need to position ourselves within the scene of rebuilding dialogue, urban and architectural safety and quality, sustainable growth, and social equity leads us toward multiscalar projects. Geographic space guides our design responses.
Growarq Week is an event dedicated to architects, engineers, designers, and students looking to revolutionize their design process through a methodology that combines two software programs: Revit and Lumion. The event will take place from June 27 to 30 at 7:00 PM and will be held entirely online.
A Casa is a non-profit initiative that leverages architecture as a tool to bridge ancestral knowledge, academia, and human connection, dedicated to proposing emancipatory and sustainable construction techniques to facilitate access to housing.
