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    Rocha's studioCarlos Brillembourg recounts his encounter with the Brazilian master, still practicing

    and teaching at 83, firmly convinced that architecture is a "sublime statement of

    human dignity".

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    Seen from the air, So Paulo seems orderly a continuous urban

    grid that is centered on the two rivers that flow east-west and

    north-south, regardless of the continuous change of the

    elevation of its many hills. Here, Le Corbusier's urban proposal

    for So Paulo from 1929 is stuck in my head. Even the numerous

    shanty towns seem to have roads and infra-structure for the most

    part. A quick image of the city is impossible. What is striking isthe endless horizon of thirty story buildings placed on these

    gentle hills as we drive slowly on the highways towards the

    center of the town.

    On Monday, September 3, 2012, I call Paulo Mendes da Rocha's

    office and his secretary of many years, Dulcinea, tells me that

    Paulo Mendes da Rocha has a full schedule on this very busy

    week, which includes the opening of the So Paulo art Bienal.Later that day I meet my friend, professor and historian Ruth

    Verde Zein at an old caf near Universidade Presbiteriana

    Mackenziewhere she teaches. She calls the Mendes da Rocha

    office and an appointment is settled for 5:30 that afternoon.

    Paulo Mendes da Rocha is a polite and elegant man. The office

    space is an open plan with round circular columns and a steel

    curtain wall in a 1940's building near the Praza de la Republicain So Paulo. Our conversation at the conference table shifted

    between architecture and politics. He took me by surprise when I

    mentioned the 18th Century sculptor, furniture maker and

    architect Aleijandinho (Antonio Francisco Lisboa 1738-1814). In

    his view, the colonial epoch including the uniquely Brazilian

    Baroque architecture was irrelevant and unworthy. "Those

    horrible sculptures made out of wood that is rotten from the

    inside," he said. Mendes' complete rejection of the value ofBrazilian Baroque was heartfelt. It is ironic that Aleijandinho

    means "little crippled one". The illegitimate son of his architect

    father was trained as an assistant but not recognized in his will.

    Aleijandinho from Ouro Preto was the architect and sculptor of

    the most important baroque architecture in all the Americas. His

    architecture understood the radical nature of Baroque space

    indebted to Borromini and very different than the planar baroque

    of the Mexican or Peruvian with its exuberance of surfaceornamentation. Later I understood why this view expressed by

    Mendes was essential to his view of Brazilian culture. For him,

    the entire American continent was a frontier of artistic freedom,

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    removed both from the tragic history imposed by the Colonial

    enterprise and the weight of European history.

    Top: Aerial view of So Paulo, Brazil. Above: San Francisco Church in Ouro Preto, Brazil

    Paulo Mendes da Rocha dismisses architecture concerned

    with surface spectacle and the photographic image of "new

    architecture". In his working process he works directly in hard

    line drawings in plan and section that are tested by making hand

    cut wooden or cardboard models. When we discuss hiscelebrated renovation of the Pinacotecahe says, "I did nothing, it

    was a good building to begin with, I just had to remove some of

    the decorative layers and then transform the rigid Palladian plan

    by covering the courtyards and introducing a new circulation

    that crosses the middle of these voids with new steel walkways

    and an elevator". This is not false modesty but an example of the

    clarity with which Mendes views the potential of architecture to

    transform the existing conditions of the site. In this case, a 19thcentury building.

    Paulo then asks me: "Do you like whisky?" and as we move to his

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    Joo Batista Vilanova Artigas: FAU So Paulo

    University

    desk area behind the bookshelves, another conversation begins

    as he lights up a cigarette and we share some scotch. He tells me

    about his father the engineer and how his parents were

    introduced. His father worked on the design and construction of

    a bridge in Southern Brazil in the first decade of the 20th

    century, all of which was done by oxen and manual labor. When

    Paulo decided to study architecture his father was a well-established engineer who was teaching at the University of So

    Paulo. He did not want to study at the same university where his

    father taught and decided to study architecture and not

    engineering at the Mackenzie University, a school established by

    the Scottish engineers, who built most of the railroads

    throughout the country so their children could learn a profession

    in a university that was not Catholic. A couple of years after

    graduating, he won the competition for the Paulistano AthleticClub(So Paulo 1958). This building gave national reputation to

    this young architect as an innovative and capable of using

    advanced reinforced concrete and steel structures. In this case,

    using a sculptural concrete base for the amphitheater as the

    anchor for a steel cable structure that in turn holds the metal

    truss roof.

    At this time, Joo Vilanova Artigas ten years his senior

    and the most influential teacher/architect/engineer of his

    generation invites him through a proxy to be his teachingassistant at the University of So Paulo in FAU. This relationship

    of thirty years teaching together was important for both. One

    could argue that the transition in Artigas work from the

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    Wrightian influence of his early work to the raw structure based

    concrete work was not only a result of his knowledge as

    engineer/architect but perhaps also the influence of his close

    friend and co-teacher Paulo Mendes da Rocha. After a second

    whisky, we discuss his relationship to Artigas at the University of

    So Paulo, and to his father, the engineer and professor. Artigas

    was a founder of the Communist party and dedicated many yearsto this political activity as his practice changed from private

    houses to more institutional work. Paolo Mendes da Rocha's

    politics were influenced by this close friendship but his creative

    temperament was not as severe as Artigas's more radical stance.

    That said, they probably did not disagree on the fundamental

    ideas of a Marxist critique of capitalism and most likely both

    regarded the architect's primary responsibility as a progressive

    agent of cultural transformation: as a professor in Artigas'extraordinary School of Architecture, or as an architect

    interpreting the program and the site given by the client.

    Although labeled brutalist, Mendes da Rocha's work

    could be more accurately characterized as

    essentialist, through his insistence on theabstraction and reduction of architecture toward a

    highly refined poetic space.

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    Joo Batista Vilanova Artigas: FAU So Paulo University

    Since the 1930s a strong modernist culture flourished in

    Brazil and produced a large and influential group of artists and

    architects who were united in their vision for a better future for

    Brazil. During the early 1950s Mendes da Rocha and others were

    part of an architectural avant-garde based in So Paulo that

    advocated for an architecture different from the Carioca (Rio de

    Janeiro) school, led by Lucio Costa, Oscar Neimeyer, JorgeMoreira, Marcelo and Milton Roberto, Alfonso Riedy, and

    Henrique Midlin. The European architect most admired by the

    Paulista School was Mies Van der Rohe, rather than Le Corbusier.

    Although concrete was the common building technology

    throughout Brazil during that period, they built experimental

    structures that combined concrete and steel construction

    methods, including innovative pre- and post-tensioned steel

    reinforcement. By 1951 the Sao Paolo architects established theArchitecture Bienal of Sao Paolo and exhibited the work of

    important architects such as Carlos Raul Villanueva, Le

    Corbusier, Mies Van der Rohe, Walter Gropius, Max Biel, Paul

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    Rudolph, among others. In the 1960s the group expanded and

    consolidated as the Paulista architects whose leading figures

    were Lina Bo Bardi, Joo Batista Villanova Artigas, Paulo Mendes

    da Rocha, Pedro Paulo de Melo Saraiva, Ruy Ohtake, and

    Joaquim Guedes.

    Paulo Mendes da Rocha: Pinacoteca do Estado de So Paulo, Brazil

    Although labeled "brutalist," Mendes da Rocha's work

    could be more accurately characterized as "essentialist," through

    his insistence on the abstraction and reduction of architecture

    toward a highly refined poetic space. The floating steel canopy of

    his Patriarch Plaza (So Paulo, 19922002) offers a monumental

    entrance to the subway, and has become an important civic

    structure, creating an urban center in an amorphous andsprawling city. The thin sections of steel that make up this

    canopy hover above the plaza like a generous wing. His

    architectural language is never literal; this solution springs from

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    need to offer shelter, in a poetic expression of civic values that is

    reminiscent of the aspirations of the work of Louis Kahn who

    said, "needs are just so many bananas." Perhaps his most

    surprising project is the State Museum Pinacoteca of So Paulo of

    1993. This renovation/restoration of a late 19th Century School

    of Arts and Crafts could be compared to Scarpa's Castelvecchio

    Museum in Verona in its radical approach to the originalbuilding, but the important difference is that instead of Scarpa's

    obsessively unique solutions, Mendes da Rocha's interventions

    are restrained to the minimum of expressiveness, contrasting the

    stripped down shell of the Beaux-arts building with abstract steel

    catwalks within the luminescent skylight spaces of the old

    interior courtyards.

    Paulo Mendes da Rocha: MUBE, Brazilian Sculpture Museum, So Paulo, Brazil

    The architect, still practicing and teaching at 83,

    gradually turned away from doctrinaire structural expressiveness

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    towards a subtle architecture of refined structures in steel or

    reinforced concrete that are inflected to accommodate different

    spatial conditions. Through his work for state sponsored projects

    such as sport stadiums, museums and large scale civic projects,

    he has been able to put into practice his belief that architecture is

    a "sublime statement of human dignity". This brief encounter left

    me with a profound impression of a man whose commitment toarchitecture was equal to his commitment to "humanist" values.

    Even when he was confronted by the severe hardships imposed

    by a military government, Paulo Mendes da Rocha the teacher

    and architect, fought for an architecture that can suspend time

    in the sense that all great architecture seems to remain timeless

    and always relevant to the present while building the

    institutions for a just society in a continent of endless frontiers.

    Paulo Mendes da Rocha: prtico de la Praa do Patriarca, So Paulo, Brazil

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    Author

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    hotography

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    Sections

    Architecture

    Keywords

    aleijadinho, Alfonso Riedy, Antonio Francisco

    Lisboa, Biennale d'arte di San Paolo, Carlos

    Raul Villanueva, Henrique Midlin, Jorge Moreira,

    Joo Vilanova Artigas, Lina Bo Bardi, Lucio

    Costa, Marcelo e Milton Roberto, Mies van der

    Rohe, Oscar Niemeyer, Paulistano Athletic Club,

    Paulo Mendes da Rocha

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    So Paulo

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