Launch of the book Collective Housing: BR/NL

Leandro Medrano (FAU USP), Mariana Wilderom (FAU-USJT / Post-Doc FAUUSP) and Marcos L. Rosa (FAU UFRJ / Post-Doc FAUUSP)

Oca Pavilion | Bookstore | Basement

With professors: Leandro Medrano (FAU USP), Mariana Wilderom (FAU-USJT / Post-Doc FAUUSP) and Marcos L. Rosa (FAU UFRJ / Post-Doc FAUUSP), who co-edit the book together with Luiz Recamán (FAU USP), Dick van Gameren (BK TU-Delft), Nelson Mota (BK TU-Delft) and Harald Mooij (BK TU-Delft).

A result of a collaboration between FAU-USP and TU Delft, the book explores the intersections between unique housing experiences developed in the São Paulo Metropolitan Region and the Randstad between 1990 and 2010. Although the urban realities and critical and design traditions are notably distinct, the book addresses the pedagogical and disciplinary meanings of UA in light of contemporary urban challenges. We identify strategies and repertoires that challenge the commodification of housing and socio-environmental justice, reaffirming the project as a political-spatial marker. Through comparative approaches to the experience of everyday urban life, we suggest a critical understanding of habitat in relation to the act of inhabiting. This critique is supported by a graphic representation exercise that connects design strategies with appropriation tactics.

Free

Participate in the program of debates, workshops and associated activities!

TODAY (27.09):

10:30 am to 8:30 pm – SP Meeting Forum

4:00 PM – Launch of the book Collective Housing: BR/NL

IN THE NEXT DAYS (28.09 to 03.10)

28.09 – SP Meeting Forum

28.09 – workshops First Half and CLIMATIVA: Climate Action Plan for Brazilian cities

28.09 – 4th Jewelry Festival in the Jewel Park and activity Bixiga River Territory reforests Canudos in Horta Denuzia

September 29th to October 3rd – workshop Embodied landscapes

September 30th and October 2nd – Biomaterials Mini-Workshops at the Living Lab

30.09 – Guided tour of Pantanal Action

10/1 – conference Means of production with Jane Hall

10/1 and 2/2 – session 4 and session 5 of the show Cinema, architecture and society at the cinematheque

01.10 – workshop Between blades and gaps: project models in Glulam

01.10 – workshop Grammars of Nature – architectures of the infinitesimal at the Living Lab

02.10 – movie The Strength of Form – bent lenticular beam in wood at IABsp

02.10 – Amerindian Farms in Oca. Amazonia from the Margins to the Extremes: Labya-Yala of FAU-USP

02.10 – tables Preserving biodiversity in the city + Trees and Thermal Justice

03.10 – tables Housing policies for the homeless population and the experience of the FICA Fund + Innovating the Regularization of Affordable Housing + Cultural facilities in adapted historic buildings

03.10 – Workshop on Designing Wooden Structures with Fiber at IABsp

03.10 – Visit to Morro Grande Park

JOIN! IT'S ALL FREE!

And there's much more until October 19th!

(Activities and projects are still being added; the site will be complete soon)

NOTE OF CONDOLENCE

With deep sorrow, the Brazilian Institute of Architects – São Paulo Department (IABsp) mourns the passing of architect and landscape architect Kongjian Yu, a global leader in ecological urbanism, and the members of his team who accompanied him, tragically killed during the filming of a documentary. The institute is honored to have had him as a participant in the 14th São Paulo International Architecture Biennial, where his transformative vision strengthened the dialogue between global challenges and local realities. IABsp emphasizes that Yu's contribution, which transcends borders, will remain an inspiration for generations and expresses its condolences to China, to the families of all the deceased, to his friends, and to all those impacted by his genius and dedication. Read the full note here.