sao-paulo: The Latest Architecture and News

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After touring Brasília (from April 8 to May 7, at the Galeria Christina Jucá, FAU-UnB) and São Luís (from June 7 to July 17, at the Museu Casa de Nhozinho), the international exhibition CURRICULUM arrives in São Paulo for its final stop in Brazil. The exhibition celebrates the contemporary work of Latin American architects trained in Spain and will be open to the public starting September 17 on the mezzanine of the IABsp building (Rua Bento Freitas, 306, Vila Buarque), a symbolic location for both São Paulo and national architecture.

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FAUUSP will host the book launch of Königsberger Vannucchi [et al.] in a session that brings together architecture and debate. The event will take place during an undergraduate class and proposes a conversation on the role of contemporary architecture in shaping the urbanity and landscape of the city of São Paulo.

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The School of Architecture and Urbanism and Design at USP, the Center for Cultural Preservation - Casa de Dona Yayá, the research group "Archive, sources and narratives: between architecture, city and design," 216 - Cultural Heritage, History and Criticism, QUALICON - Quality and Performance in the Built Environment, LabIndus - Laboratory of Industrialization, and Labdias - Laboratory of Studies on Culture, City and Diaspora are pleased to invite professionals, researchers, master craftspeople, holders of traditional knowledge, and other interested parties to submit papers for the 5th Vernacular/Popular Architecture Seminar, to be held from June 8 to 11, 2026. Building on a tradition of studies in the field that began in the 1970s, and currently driven by the democratization of access to the university, FAU-USP is witnessing a resurgence and growing expansion of interest in, and the assimilation of, new perspectives on the diverse processes of vernacular and popular architecture.

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The course investigates the relationship between architecture, exhibition design, and art, analyzing museums as potential territories for experimentation, contestation, and cultural reinvention. By examining case studies such as MoMA in New York, the Centre Pompidou, and the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, the course discusses the "white cube" model and its ties to modern art, in contrast to other spatial and architectural approaches associated with contemporary art.

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In September 2000, architect Paulo Mendes da Rocha proposed something both possible and impossible: covering the Praça da República in downtown São Paulo with a suspended pool-beach. This provocative gesture challenges latent societal issues: the right to leisure, idleness, celebration, hygiene, self-care, sociability, entertainment, and the body. "Canteens, machine-locker rooms, and ramps" are nearly all the words that permeate this narrative project and inspire our workshop.

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