Learning from… São Paulo
Angelo Bucci, architect and professor at the University of São Paulo, Brazil, addresses the violence and changing environment of São Paulo in search of new urban forms. São Paulo’s urban violence can be understood as ruining the experience of the city and, as a result, the purpose of the architect’s work. The lecture examines São Paulo not as a static object, but as an(...)
22 April 2010
Learning from… São Paulo
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Angelo Bucci, architect and professor at the University of São Paulo, Brazil, addresses the violence and changing environment of São Paulo in search of new urban forms. São Paulo’s urban violence can be understood as ruining the experience of the city and, as a result, the purpose of the architect’s work. The lecture examines São Paulo not as a static object, but as an(...)
Learning from... Luanda
With a metropolitan population of over 5 million, Luanda is the third most populated Portuguese-speaking city in the world after São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. Architect and researcher Paulo Moreira proposes alternative approaches to urbanism based on ongoing research in Chicala, an informal settlement with direct connection with the commercial areas of the city, as well(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
1 November 2012 , 7pm
Learning from... Luanda
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With a metropolitan population of over 5 million, Luanda is the third most populated Portuguese-speaking city in the world after São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. Architect and researcher Paulo Moreira proposes alternative approaches to urbanism based on ongoing research in Chicala, an informal settlement with direct connection with the commercial areas of the city, as well(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
As the Earth’s climate reaches a state of constant instability, there is growing awareness of how global warming can affect human rights and increase social strife. Less attention has been paid to the ways in which political violence and human rights abuses, from past and present, constitute driving factors in the transformations of the global environment and climate.(...)
Paul Demarais Theatre
1 December 2016, 6pm
In the Frontiers of Climate Change (Toward a Politics of Nonhuman Rights)
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As the Earth’s climate reaches a state of constant instability, there is growing awareness of how global warming can affect human rights and increase social strife. Less attention has been paid to the ways in which political violence and human rights abuses, from past and present, constitute driving factors in the transformations of the global environment and climate.(...)
Paul Demarais Theatre
Evoking a provocation famously framed by Le Corbusier, “Architecture ou Révolution,” this conversation will situate the SAAL process in Portugal within international debates during the 1960s and 1970s on social housing and the architect’s social responsibility. Nuno Portas, Secretary of State for Housing and Urbanism of the government established after the 1974 Portuguese(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
14 May 2015 , 6pm
Architecture or Revolution? A Conversation with Nuno Portas and Nuno Grande
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Evoking a provocation famously framed by Le Corbusier, “Architecture ou Révolution,” this conversation will situate the SAAL process in Portugal within international debates during the 1960s and 1970s on social housing and the architect’s social responsibility. Nuno Portas, Secretary of State for Housing and Urbanism of the government established after the 1974 Portuguese(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
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4 videocassettes (Mini-DV) : sound, color ; 1/4 in. master, 4 videodiscs (DVD) : digital ; 12 cm consultation copy, 1 streaming video file (1 hr., 1 min., 37 sec.) :...
Learning from-- São Paulo = L'enseignement de-- São Paulo.
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412 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm
São Paulo, SP, Brasil : Edusp, ©2005.
Os arquitetos da Poli : ensino e profissão em São Paulo / Sylvia Ficher.
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412 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm
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São Paulo, SP, Brasil : Edusp, ©2005.
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1 CD-ROM : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
[Brazil] : Semiotic Systems, [2000?] (São Paulo : NovoDisc Brasil Indústria Fonográfica)
ENEPEA2000, anais do V Encontro Nacional de Ensino de Paisagismo em Escolas de Arquitetura e Urbanismo no Brasil / coordenação, Vera Regina Tângari. Paisagismo : depoimentos e projetos : primeira exposiçao virtual de paisagismo / coordenação, Jonathas Magalhães Pereira da Silva ; participantes, Benedito Abbud [and others].
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[Brazil] : Semiotic Systems, [2000?] (São Paulo : NovoDisc Brasil Indústria Fonográfica)