On July 3rd, at the Embassy of Brazil in Rome, the presentation of the video-diary SAUDE! took place, accompanied by a conference coordinated by Lydia Pribisova who also cured the relationship with the Embassy. The video, created by the new ISSU producion (Daniele Zacchi, Azzurra Muzzonigro and Laura Cionci), describes the action created by Laboratorio Arti Civiche, coordinated by ...

It's been an intense, alive and memorable day. The fact of publicly projecting the video-diary SAUDE! at the Embassy of Brazil I think was an important step under several perspectives. In the first place what was publicly presented was a team-work, the result of months of preparation, and the result of a relationship between 'Rome' and 'São Francisco' ...

One City, Many Forms For a city as high on modern architecture as Sao Paulo, its newly found generosity of spirit towards its contrasting favela-studded landscape is a precious thing. The administration seems to be more accepting of the city’s diverse urban texture than ever before. It is now loosening policies to allow existing favelas to upgrade themselves and ...

Click on the image to enlarge it and here to see the photo being exhibited. Our obsession with mixing and merging urban landscapes and histories just moved to another level. We decided to let go of photoshopping for a bit and actually take a piece of Mumbai to Sao Paulo. As part of the Sao Paulo Calling ...

The author of this article, Marcella Aruda, is a student of architecture at Escola da Cidade, Sao Paulo, Brazil. She participated in a three days workshop organized by URBZ in Paraisopolis. The students are seen interacting with local builder Ataide in the picture above. What are the most productive and socially relevant roles that the architect ...