Visitors are persuaded by hotel staff to never venture on foot through the city - and the locals, who love to say they hate it, take their guests to malls as if nothing else was to be seen in the metropolis than generic shops from Dubai to Beijing . Part of the elites, after breaking into every neighborhood in Miami, now ventures and dazzles with Las Vegas. These upper classes, traditional or emerging, do not venture
idiosyncrasies of São Paulo. Marko Bragovic, Guto Requena and Mauricio A...
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Visitors are persuaded by hotel staff to never venture on foot through the city - and the locals, who love to say they hate it, take their guests to malls as if nothing else was to be seen in the metropolis than generic shops from Dubai to Beijing . Part of the elites, after breaking into every neighborhood in Miami, now ventures and dazzles with Las Vegas. These upper classes, traditional or emerging, do not venture
idiosyncrasies of São Paulo. Marko Bragovic, Guto Requena and Mauricio Arruda are architects who, yes, venture through the city. And they can find beauty and surprise in the ugliness of lack of planning, but also in spontaneous kitsch, in the mestizo and popular culture that is an endless source of ideas and forms,
which fortunately is not only a poor derivative of international trends. They belong to a generation that pedals through the city, despite shopping malls, high walls and railways, expressways and cars everywhere, encouraged by all political-party orientations. Go skate or skates where it is not allowed. That opens the way, it reinvents Roosevelt Square and the Lower Augusta, that occupies the Minhocão, that makes
Turned up early in the morning and discovers the gracelistic graffiti of Grajaú. Who wanders through the night of Sao Paulo and dares to explore territories from where the middle classes abstain. Lick theirs. By recycling their debris, putting bytes and tweets in their concrete or finding poetry hidden by their debris, the young trio shows that, far from dogmas of so many decades, architecture still has much to do for SP. " Raul Lores
Commissioned by: Coletivo Amor de Madre
Curator: Raul Lores
Format: Exhibition
Job description: Exhibition Design
Authors: Atelier Marko Brajovic + Estudo Guto Requena + Estudio Mauricio Arruda
Creative Director: Marko Brajovic
Project Director: Bruno Bezerra