Old and new : the experience of the Brazil Architecture Office in intervention programs in historical buildings and sites.

Reaching near 30 years of activity, Brazil Architecture establishes a work path among top state-of-the-art architectural Brazilian producers. Back tracking the architects’ progress has shown us that early projects fell under FAU’s current ideology during their student years. As new references yielde...

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Autor principal: Viceconti Nahas, Patricia
Format: Online
Idioma:por
Publicat: Universidad Católica de Colombia 2010
Accés en línia:https://revistadearquitectura.ucatolica.edu.co/article/view/756
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Sumari:Reaching near 30 years of activity, Brazil Architecture establishes a work path among top state-of-the-art architectural Brazilian producers. Back tracking the architects’ progress has shown us that early projects fell under FAU’s current ideology during their student years. As new references yielded ideas and time was passing by Brazil Architecture kept on leading its own character and trends into the architectonic language. The importance of programs involving architectonic and historic site interventions are a highlight among the office’s history, as 40 projects, from almost 200, bring into discussion matters of memory and contemporaneity plus the relations between the new and the old. The counterpart aspect added the conviviality of the new together with the old shall be the motto for the whole production being built, from learning at the Pompeia Commerce Social Service (Serviço Social do Comércio – Sesc Pompéia, São Paulo, Brazil), then consolidated throughout the Rodin Museum and finally reaching maturity by the building of the Bread Museum. As they are still relatively young, it nevertheless points towards new chapters yet to be written in future years.