TY - BOOK AU - Cohen, Jean-Louis. AU - Cohen,Jean-Louis AU - Grossman,Vanessa TI - Constructed Geographies: Paulo Mendes da Rocha SN - 9780300275452 AV - NA859.R63 C66 2024 PY - 2023/// CY - New Haven PB - Yale University Press KW - Architecture KW - Exhibitions KW - Brazil N1 - "Published on the occasion of the exhibition Constructed Geographies: Paulo Mendes da Rocha, organised by Casa da Arquitectura - Portuguese Center for Architecture. 26 May 2023 to 8 September 2024, Casa da Arquitectura, Matosinhos, Portugal"--page 430; 7 Prologue -- 9 José Manuel Dias da Fonseca, Nuno Sampaio Paulo Mendes da Rocha: A Legacy and a Commitment -- 11 Nuno Sampaio Knowledge is Universal -- 19 Jean-Louis Cohen, Vanessa Grossman About this Book -- 25 Jean-Louis Cohen, Vanessa Grossman Interview with Eduardo Souto de Moura -- 33 Beyond Frontiers -- 35 Jean-Louis Cohen Sao Paulo as a World-City -- 49 Vanessa Grossman Geographic Imagination: from the Americas to the Planet -- 69 The Building of an Oeuvre -- 71 Daniele Pisani A Portrait of the Architect As a Young Man -- 85 Catherine Otondo Drawing as Creation -- 97 Guy Nordenson Frame, Form, Void: The Structural Imagination -- 109 Guilherme Wisnik Homo Faber vs. Homo Ludens: The Practice of Detail -- 125 Marta Silveira Peixoto, Ruth Verde Zein Four Solid Walls Erected On the Landing -- 139 Ana Luiza Nobre Through Hammocks and Cocoons: on Architecture’s Relationship to the Ground -- 149 Victor Prospero The Politics of the Megastructures -- 163 Annette Spiro Beyond Time and Place, Yet Anchored in the Everyday: The Chapel Nossa Senhora da Conceicao in Recife -- 168 Paulo Mendes da Rocha Letter to Annette Spiro (2010) -- 175 Marina Grinover Teaching is a Collective Process -- 185 Twelve Projects -- 187 Annette Spiro Butanta Houses, Sao Paulo, 1964-1967 -- 207 Stephanie Bru Gerber House, Angra dos Reis, 1973-1974 -- 223 Jose Paulo Gouvea Brazil’s Pavilion at Expo ’70, Osaka, 1969-1970 -- 241 Juliana Braga, Joao Sodre Jaragua Building, Sao Paulo, 1984-1998 -- 293 Marcos Paulo Cereto Paulistano Athletic Club Gymnasium, Sao Paulo, 1958-1962 and Serra Dourada Stadium, Goiania, 1973-1975 -- 309 Sophia da Silva Telles Brazilian Museum of sculpture (MuBE), Sao Paulo, 1986-1995 -- 327Angelo Bucci Patriarca Square Remodelling, Sao Paulo, 1992-2002 -- 345 Ana Vaz Milheiro Arts Quay, Vitoria, since 2007 And National Coach Museum, Lisbon, 2008-2015 -- 365 Vanessa Grossman Sesc 24 de Maio, Sao Paulo, 2000-2017 -- 381 Nicolas Xavier de Carvalho, Alexandre Delijaicov Tiete River Port City, State of Sao Paulo, 1980 -- 397 Materials -- 399 Flavio Motta Paulo Mendes da Rocha (1967) -- 404 Biographical Milestones -- 406 Main Projects and Built Works -- 413 Selected Bibliography -- 414 Authors -- 419 Note by Kenneth Frampton -- 421 Casa da Arquitectura Portuguese Centre for Architecture -- 428 Credits -- N2 - "This volume provides a new perspective on the work of Paulo Mendes da Rocha (1928-2021), one of the most acclaimed architects working since the mid-twentieth century. Widely recognised as having transformed the urban context of São Paulo, he became the second Brazilian to win the Pritzker Prize, after Oscar Niemeyer. In this volume, a team of international scholars provides a comprehensive overview of the architect's trajectory and the collective dimension of his work, along with thematic essays. Of crucial importance is Paolo Mendes da Rocha's identity as a South American architect and his view of geography in relation to nature and culture. The essays explore Mendes da Rocha's concern with the anthropogenic effects of the continent's development as well as its colonial and postcolonial past, focusing on twelve of the architect's key buildings. This essential book based on the archive held by the Casa da Arquitectura points the way forward for future scholarship on Paulo Mendes da Rocha and the architecture of contemporary Brazil"--From page [4] of cover ER -