{"id":41,"date":"2020-09-16T23:53:17","date_gmt":"2020-09-17T02:53:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uia2021rio.archi\/?p=41"},"modified":"2021-02-12T08:04:46","modified_gmt":"2021-02-12T11:04:46","slug":"paulo-mendes-da-rocha-um-acervo-para-o-mundo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uia2021rio.archi\/en\/paulo-mendes-da-rocha-um-acervo-para-o-mundo\/","title":{"rendered":"Paulo Mendes da Rocha \u2013 a collection for the world"},"content":{"rendered":"

The personal collection of one of the leading names in Brazilian architecture has just been shipped off to Portugal: UIA2021RIO Honour Committee member Paulo Mendes da Rocha has donated some 9,000 items \u2013 including his drawings, maquettes, photographs and sorted documentation \u2013 to the\u00a0Casa da Arquitectura<\/em>\u00a0architecture centre in Matosinhos.<\/p>\n

This decision caused a variety of reactions. Some Brazilian professors, researchers, architects and students lamented this loss, claiming that it would be harder to access these items, with adverse effects on studies and research projects. Mention was also made of the culture drain currently faced by Brazil.<\/p>\n

However, the\u00a0Casa da Arquitectura<\/em>\u00a0promises that these materials (which consist of some 6,300 drawings, 3,000 photographs and slides, 300 publications and maquettes prepared for over 320 projects) will be catalogued and digitised. From next year onwards, this collection will be available virtually, and will be available for exhibition in other countries from 2022 onwards.<\/p>\n

In an open letter, the Executive Director of the\u00a0Casa da Arquitectura<\/em>, Nuno Sampaio, announced the intention of drawing up institutional cooperation protocols with Brazilian entities, in order to offer access to this collection and encourage exchanges.<\/p>\n

Coming out in support of Paulo Mendes da Rocha, artists, architects and curators \u2013 many of whom are speakers or contributors to UIA2021RIO \u2013 signed a manifesto, which is published in full below.<\/p>\n

\"Paulo<\/p>\n

A Hug: Standing with Paulo<\/h4>\n

Architect and Professor Paulo Mendes da Rocha proffers an invitation to reflect on whether a pyramid \u201cis the stone, or the idea that it has been there for more than 5,000 years. Which lasts longer: the stones or the ideas?\u201d<\/p>\n

His personal decision to donate his collection of documents to the\u00a0Casa da Arquitectura<\/em>\u00a0architecture centre in Portugal \u2013 thus ensuring its preservation, with free public access to this documentation \u2013 shows us that this is the way: in our integrated world with instant communications, it is ideas that must be acknowledged and preserved, and it is knowledge as a whole that will lead us to the future.<\/p>\n

Looking beyond respect for the freedom to select the final destination of his personal collection, we believe that it is vital and urgent for us to recall, at this time, his notable track record of example, resistance and humanity in his professional life, his teachings and his political stances.<\/p>\n

Long before the issue of colonisation was placed in the centre of discussions, as has occurred so pertinently of late, Paulo was already expressing his views on the problems arising from its persistence among us.<\/p>\n

Long before contemporary international critics began to investigate building defunctionalisation and urbanisation, Paulo was already embodied in a democratising tradition of Brazilian architecture building \u201csignificant but nameless spaces\u201d as defined by Fl\u00e1vio Motta.<\/p>\n

Long before the tough times through which we are living today, Paulo saw his rights suppressed (together with Artigas, Maitrejean and so many others). Banned from the S\u00e3o Paulo University Architecture and Urban Planning School (FAU-USP), he wisely returned there and re-signified his teaching activities (and the School itself) during the years that Brazil was rebuilding its democracy.<\/p>\n

The time has now come when he decided to open up his ideas to the world, with the same generous and democratic vigour and imagination as always. Opening up the world everywhere and for everyone, this is a great gesture that does not undermine the importance of all Brazilian institutions, suffering so severely during this sad time as culture is being dismantled in Brazil. This effort to save his work may be viewed as part of the resistance against this dismantling process.<\/p>\n

This is why we express our full confidence in the accuracy of his decision, underpinned by all the other correct decisions he has made in his life. We believe that leaving his collection with the Casa de Arquitectura architecture centre is a civilisatory action that rises above historical issues, buttressing supranational links while strengthening the ties between Portugal and Brazil, as a project pursuing a fairer world that is better for all.<\/p>\n

We close by borrowing an introduction to Paulo that was written by Flavio Motta almost fifty years ago \u2013 and is still perfectly up to date.<\/p>\n

Paulo Mendes da Rocha battles this immobilism [of man faced by things] with the flair of the artist, the Brazilian and the architect that he is. He also allows us these skirmishes insofar as they are of interest to man. Not only does he allow them, he stirs them up even beyond national boundaries, for historical rather than geographical reasons, seeking time that was not lost, but rather taken away.
\nFlavio Motta, Textos Informes, 1973<\/i><\/p>\n

Signed<\/p>\n

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Abilio Guerra
\nAchiles Coelho Maciel
\nAdriano Bergemann
\nAlberto Faria
\nAlberto Tassinari
\nAlejandro Aravena
\nAlejandro Echeverri
\nAlexandre Brasil
\nAlexandre de Carvalho
\nAlexandre Delijaicov
\nAlexandre Martins Fontes
\nAlexandre Prisco
\nAlvaro Puntoni
\nAlvaro Razuk
\nAlziro Carvalho Neto
\nAmauri Gavi\u00e3o
\nAna Belluzzo
\nAna Terra Capobianco
\nAna Tost\u00f5es
\nAna Vaz Milheiros
\nAnalia Amorim
\nAnderson Freitas
\nAndr\u00e9 Luiz Prado
\nAndr\u00e9 Vainer
\nAndr\u00e9 Velloso
\nAndrea Pedrazzini
\nAndrey Rosenthal Schlee
\nAngela Paredes
\nAngelica Alvim
\nAngelo Bucci
\nAnnete Spiro
\nAntonio Carlos Barossi
\nAracy Amaral
\nAry Perez
\nBarbara Hoidn
\nBernardo Carvalho
\nBia Lessa
\nBob Wolfenson
\nBruno Braga
\nBruno Santa Cec\u00edlia
\nCaio Calafate
\nCamila Toledo
\nCarlos Alberto Maciel
\nCarlos Ant\u00f4nio Leite Brand\u00e3o
\nCarlos Arcos
\nCarlos Barrado
\nCarlos Caf\u00e9
\nCarlos Corbett
\nCarlos Eduardo Comas
\nCarlos Guilherme Mota
\nCarlos Zilio
\nCarmela Gross
\nCarolina Bueno
\nCarolina Bueno Andrade Silva
\nC\u00e9lia Euvaldo
\nCelso Pazzanese
\nCiro Pirondi
\nCristian Nanzer
\nCristiane Muniz
\nCristiano Lindenmeyer Kunze
\nCristina Monteiro de Castro Pereira
\nDaniel Mangabeira
\nDaniela S\u00e1
\nDanilo Santos de Miranda
\nDenise Solot
\nDiane Gray
\nDiego Portas
\nEder Alencar
\nEdson Fernandes
\nEduardo Aquino
\nEduardo Argenton Colonelli
\nEduardo Ferroni
\nEduardo Pierrotti Rossetti
\nEduardo Souto de Moura
\nElisabete Fran\u00e7a
\nElisio Yamada
\nEster Grinspum
\nEuripedes Neto
\nEvelise Grunow
\nFabiano Melo
\nFabiano Sobreira
\nF\u00e1bio Magalh\u00e3es
\nF\u00e1bio Miguez
\nF\u00e1bio Valentim
\nF\u00e1tima L\u00facia Cisneiros
\nFelipe Rio Branco
\nFelipe Tassara
\nFernanda Barbara
\nFernanda Neiva
\nFernando Luiz Lara
\nFernando Maculan
\nFernando Viegas
\nFilipe Pederneiras
\nFl\u00e1vio de Lemos Carsalade
\nFrancesco Dal Co
\nFrancisco Fanucci
\nFrancisco Rivas
\nFrederico Rabelo<\/div>\n
Gabriel Daher Jardim
\nGabriela Izar
\nGal Oppido
\nGerardo Caballero
\nGilberto Franco
\nGilson Paranhos
\nGleuson Pinheiro
\nGloria Cabral
\nGon\u00e7alo Byrne
\nGonzalo Barrado
\nGreg\u00f3rio Rosenbusch
\nGui Paoliello
\nGuil Blanche
\nGuilherme Bravin
\nGuilherme Motta
\nGustavo Penna
\nHaroldo Pinheiro
\nHenrique Coutinho
\nHermes Rom\u00e3o
\nHugo Mesquita
\nIgnacio Pedrosa
\nIgor Campos
\nIgor Dourado
\nIn\u00eas Lobo
\nIole de Freitas
\nIran do Esp\u00edrito Santo
\nIsa Grinspum Ferraz
\nJac Leirner
\nJaime Marcondes Cupertino
\nJavier Corval\u00e1n
\nJean Pierre Crousse
\nJ\u00f4 Vasconcellos
\nJo\u00e3o Belo Rodeia
\nJo\u00e3o Carmo Sim\u00f5es
\nJo\u00e3o Diniz
\nJo\u00e3o Luis Carrilho da Gra\u00e7a
\nJo\u00e3o Luiz Valim Batelli
\nJo\u00e3o Nitsche
\nJo\u00e3o Paulo Beugger
\nJorge Furtado
\nJorge Pessoa de Carvalho
\nJorge Silvetti
\nJorge Villavisencio
\nJos\u00e9 Armenio Brito Cruz
\nJos\u00e9 Fernando Minho
\nJose Maria Saez
\nJos\u00e9 Oswaldo Vilela
\nJos\u00e9 Paulo Gouvea
\nJos\u00e9 Resende
\nJosep Maria Montaner
\nJoseto Cubilla
\nJuliana Villela Junqueira
\nJulio Gaeta
\nJupira Corbucci
\nLarissa Pontes
\nLaura Penna
\nLaymert Garcia dos Santos
\nLeda Catunda
\nLeonardo Bianchetti
\nLeonardo Finotti
\nLeticia Tamisari
\nLisiane Dutra
\nLua Nitsche
\nLucas Fehr
\nLuc\u00eda Barrado
\nLuciana Saboia
\nLuciano Margotto
\nLu\u00eds Fernando Teixeira
\nLuiz Henrique Lopes dos Santos
\nLuiz Otavio Rodrigues
\nLuiz Renato Martins
\nMaira Rios
\nManoel Balbino
\nManoel Fonseca
\nManuel Aires Mateus
\nMarcelo Barbosa
\nMarcelo Ferraz
\nMarcelo Gualano
\nMarcelo Morettin
\nMarcelo Suzuki
\nMarcelo Vila
\nMarcia Lucia Guilherme
\nMarcia Terazaki
\nMarcio Cotrim
\nMarco Giannotti
\nMarcos Acayaba
\nMarcos Cartum
\nMarcos Cereto
\nMarcos Franchini
\nMarcos Laffyte
\nMarcus Vinicius Damon
\nMaria Alice Milliet
\nMaria Cristina Villefort Teixeira
\nMaria Helena Flynn
\nMaria Helena Queiroz Lobo
\nMaria Isabel Imbronito
\nMaria Jo\u00e3o Figueiredo
\nMaria Lucia Malard<\/div>\n
Maria L\u00facia Mello Oliveira Cacciola
\nMarianna Boghosian Al Assal
\nMariano Faraci
\nMarina Correia
\nMario Biselli
\nMario Corea
\nMario Figueroa
\nMarisa Moreira Salles
\nMariza Machado Coelho
\nMarta Moreira
\nMartin Benavidez
\nMartin Cobas
\nMartin Corullon
\nMasao Kamita
\nMatheus Gorovitz
\nMatheus Seco
\nMaur\u00edcio Jos\u00e9 Laguardia Campomori
\nMaur\u00edcio Rocha
\nMichelle Jean de Castro
\nMiguel G\u00f3es
\nMiguel Marat\u00e1
\nMilton Braga
\nMonica Bertolino
\nMonica Moreira
\nMurilo Romeu
\nNader Tehrani
\nNaia Alban
\nNara Grossi
\nNathalia Cantergiani
\nNattalia Bom Conselho
\nNeilton Dorea
\nNelson Kon
\nNeudson Braga
\nNicolas Campadonico
\nNivaldo Andrade
\nNonato Veloso
\nNuno Ramos
\nOtavio Leonidio
\nPablo Here\u00f1u
\nPablo Talhouk
\nPatr\u00edcia Galv\u00e3o
\nPatr\u00edcio Porto
\nPaula Bonomi
\nPaula Zasnicoff
\nPaulo Henrique Paranhos
\nPaulo Monteiro
\nPaulo Pasta
\nPaulo Pederneiras
\nPaulo Portella Filho
\nPaulo Ribeiro
\nPaulo Sergio Duarte
\nPedro Morais
\nPedro Nitsche
\nPedro Paulo Palazzo
\nPedro Pederneiras
\nPedro Varella
\nPhilip Yang
\nRafael Antonio Cunha Perrone
\nRaul Gradim
\nRenata Semin
\nRicardo Bak Gordon
\nRicardo Bozza
\nRicardo Carvalho
\nRicardo Sargiotti
\nRoberto Aflalo
\nRoberto Klein
\nRoberto Schwarz
\nRodolfo Marques
\nRodrigo Andrade
\nRodrigo Mendes
\nRodrigo Monteiro
\nRodrigo Naves
\nRodrigo Santana
\nRonaldo Brito
\nRui Furtado
\nRuth Verde Zein
\nSami Bussab
\nSandra Barclay
\nS\u00e9rgio Magalh\u00e3es
\nS\u00e9rgio Sister
\nSilvana Romano Santos
\nSolano Benitez
\nSophia S. Telles
\nStan Allen
\nStella Senra
\nSuzana Barbosa
\nSylvia Ficher
\nVanda Klabin
\nVinicius Andrade
\nVioleta Kubrusly
\nWaltercio Caldas
\nWanderley Ariza
\nWesley de Oliveira
\nWilfried Wang
\nYung Ho Chang
\nZaida Muxi
\nZeca Brand\u00e3o<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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