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a double interview to 5.5 designers and Anne-Claude Truchement Nespresso project manager 5.5 designers Laura Andreini: How did your collaboration with Nespresso proceed? Have you enjoyed ample freedom in the creative process, or did you develop your de …

          presentazione/introduction São Paulo: the difference between city and metropolis testo Marco Casamonti saggi/essays São Paulo: urban structure of territorial extension testo Renato Anelli São Paulo: transformation and …

I may describe Sao Paolo with the eyes of a traveller, because it is impossible for a foreigner to acquire, in a short while, the privilege of discovering this urban conglomerate with the awareness and depth of its inhabitants and of the many scholars …

The geographic position of the city of São Paulo has played a strategic role in aiding the penetration of the internal regions of the continent during the period of the Portuguese colonization, and it still acts as polarizing element in the organizatio …

To realize itself, Brazil needs lyrism, an ability to forget itself, and as to virtues, an ability to surpass itself. Its modern architecture is a masterly lesson of these two redeeming requirements. Anísio Teixeira (Brazilian pedagogue, 1900 -1971) In …

Marco Casamonti: We often have a superficial vision of São Paulo; a big problem consists of the old town, which is very beautiful but hard to renovate, and then the traffic, the quality of life. In this context we would like to hear the opinion of the …

The cityscape of São Paulo appears indecipherable to the eyes of its inhabitants. The Italian anthropologist Massimo Canevacci has defined it a polyphonic city. But São Paulo is also an autophagous city which has to devour itself in order to grow. As a …

Can leisure reshape architecture, or does it remodel the practice of architecture itself? This question calls to mind the work of Lina Bo Bardi (1914-1992), the Italian-born architect who eventually became one of Brazil’s most important architectural f …