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Architects: IDEIA1
- Area: 12522 m²
- Year: 2024
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Manufacturers: GRAPHISOFT, Sherwin-Williams, Alusistem, Portinari



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.






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.


