Oscar Niemeyer.
A piece of paper stood on end. Bent so it stands.
A roof of glass.
Lució Costa.
A building within a building.
An internal plaza.
Enhance the idea of a modern state.
Take the plan of Le Corbusier and turn it ninety degrees.
The veranda as a space of transition.
Occupation and intervention of the territory.
Question for the architect.
Man’s habitat is the city.
They arrived by sea, climbed 700m and founded Sao Paolo.
The street was created in the space of a small stream.
A floating house.
Simulated prefabrication.
Rehearsal of industrial processes.
A block floating over the terrain.
Dialogue of regular and circular forms.
Seventy per cent of the house is concrete.
The same price as a Volkswagen Beetle.
The idea of positive and negative space.
Which is the figure?
Which is the background?
Incorporate a void.
Doors and windows without glass.
Red inside. Blue outside.
Happy movement of colours.
Like stones with porosity.
The house of a barefoot fisherman.
Spartan. Simple.
A rotation of the glass volume.
Enhance the visualisation of the mountain.
Here we have parasitic plants.
The swimming pool invades the shadow area.
The river was domesticated.
The create of parasite architecture.
The metal structures grab the concrete columns.
A tower of book inside the water.
Use the water as a huge glass mirror.
Create new situations in the landscape.
Transform.
The roof as a ratchet to give a sense of scale.
Useless element.
It’s a domestic situation.
It’s not a museum.
Division of circulations.
1922 – 1968 – 2010.
Studies in paper.
This is made from his hands.
A triangle of three churches.
The historical mountain.
Install the birth of the city.
A virtual land created by a huge concrete structure.
A heroic plant is born.
A reference in the memory.
A grown man doesn’t play in the trees but walks through them.
The task of the architect is not mathematic deduction.
The curved line is not the fastest but it is the most pleasant.
You have to evoke your memories to evoke new spaces.