The City as a Laboratory of Processes: A Decade of Urban Experimentation with Concéntrico

Concéntrico Pavilion / sauermartins + Mauricio Méndez. Image © Josema Cutillas As cities continue to develop, we are seeing ever more well-planned, thoroughly executed, and tightly regulated approaches to shaping urban centres and their surrounding spaces—for better and for worse. As codes, restrictions, and guidelines improve and tighten, urban environments become safer, more balanced, and … Read more

Serious Play: The Subversive Designs of Lina Bo Bardi and Aldo van Eyck

Lina Bo Bardi / Preliminary Study – Practicable Sculptures for the Belvedere at Museu Arte Trianon, 1968. Credit line: Doação Instituto Lina Bo e P.M. Bardi, 2006. Cortesia de MASP. Aldo van Eyck and Lina Bo Bardi were two subversive figures. Their visions of collectivity and playfulness—though applied to very different kinds of structures—shared a … Read more