sao-paulo: The Latest Architecture and News

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The IABsp has organized the CAU/SP Electoral Debate to increase awareness surrounding the CAU/SP elections and to ensure a discussion of ideas, proposals, and platforms from the slates, aiming for a more democratic and participatory electoral process.

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5 sessions | 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM | Thursdays
October 1, 8, 22, 29 + November 5

This course uses the Bauhaus as a lens to examine the broader historical trajectory from the 20th century to the present, ultimately returning to our own practice to better understand the school and its lasting impact. It shifts between viewing the Bauhaus from the outside in and observing the world through its perspective. The course emphasizes the relationship between behaviors, objects, and their respective eras, spanning from the dawn of industrial consumer society to our current hyper-consumerist age. In doing so, we will cultivate a multidisciplinary, open, and relational perspective—perhaps the Bauhaus’s most significant contribution to our time.

4 sessions | 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM | Thursdays
September 24 + October 1, 8, 15

This course on color in architecture guides the observer through significant architectural works, focusing on chromaticity.

Organized by Marco Artigas and Pedro Vada, this course aims to broaden the repertoire of contemporary architectural production by considering the urgent need for new, fundamentally counter-hegemonic perspectives.

God is in the Details

The projects by studio mk27 value formal simplicity and are crafted with extreme attention to detail and finishes. Using photographs and executive drawings of select projects, architect and director Diana Radomysler demonstrates the complexity and care required to achieve the aforementioned formal simplicity.

3 Ways of Living

Director and architect Suzana Glogowski will present three residential projects that differ in scale, location, and program, along with the solutions provided by studio mk27 for each.

6 sessions | 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM | Thursdays
October 22, 29 + November 5, 12, 19, 26

Paulistano Buildings – The evolution of modern buildings in São Paulo, from design to the present day.

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The Saint-Gobain Group, a global leader in sustainable construction, will announce the winners of the 7th edition of the Saint-Gobain Architecture Award – Sustainable Habitat on September 23. The initiative aims to recognize and reward the best architectural projects that excel in comfort, innovation, and sustainability solutions. This year, for the first time, the ceremony will be broadcast online and will be open to the general public via the company's YouTube channel.

Registration is now open for the conversations hosted by COMUNS, a virtual laboratory for experimental and participatory architecture organized by Marcella Arruda and Marina Frúgoli in partnership with the Marieta cultural center in São Paulo, Brazil. The laboratory aims to foster the exchange of experiences and reflections on social, ecological, and political technologies for transforming Latin American territories. The initiatives invited to these conversations follow logics that promote collective, collaborative, and experimental work, anchored in the ethics of buen vivir (good living), the decolonization of knowledge, and the preservation of the common good.

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