2G 45 PAULO MENDES DA ROCHA

Description

Paulo Mendes da Rocha (Vitória do Espírito Santo, 1928) received the Pritzker Prize in 2006. Known internationally as a result of the construction of his Museu Brasileiro da Escultura (MuBE) in São Paulo, his work embraces many different scales, from magnificent single-family houses, by way of major reforms to important buildings and plans for public space, to enormous urbanistic projects. This issue of 2G displays the Brazilian architect’s most recent works (some of them hitherto unpublished), all of them built in collaboration with a series of architecture studios, including the Pinacoteca do Estado, the Praça do Patriarca and the FIESP Cultural Centre, all in São Paulo, a chapel in Recife, and urban schemes for Montevideo Bay, Vigo University campus and the port area in Cagliari. Guilherme Wisnik’s ‘Architecture of the territory’ provides us with a number of clues to understanding Mendes da Rocha’s career in the context of Brazil, while a choral interview with the architect and his colleagues enables us to understand the process of collaboration and the development of the projects.

CONTENTS

Introduction

• Guilherme Wisnik: Architecture of the territory

Works and projects

• Museum and theatre, Vitória
• Montevideo Bay
• ERSU Viale la Playa university campus, Cagliari
• State Art Museum, São Paulo
• National Museum of Fine Art, Rio de Janeiro
• FIESP Cultural Centre, São Paulo
• Torre del Gallo-Galileo apartment, Florence
• Nossa Senhora da Conceição Chapel, Recife
• Cândido and Eliana House, São Paulo
• Leme Gallery, São Paulo
• Housing in Vallecas, Madrid
• Parque Dom Pedro II Bus Station, São Paulo
• Patriarca Square, São Paulo
• SESC Tatuapé Cultural Centre, São Paulo
• SIVAM General Co-ordination Centre, Brasilia
• Museum Square, the University of São Paulo, São Paulo
• Master plan for the campus of Vigo University

Biography

Nexus

• Guilherme Wisnik: Interviews with Paulo Mendes da Rocha and his collaborators

144 pages, color ills / 23 x 30 cm / English