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Category Archives: Architecture
Espaços colaterais
Lançamento do livro Espaços Colaterais, organizado por Alexandre Campos, Wellington Cançado, Renata Marquez e Carlos Teixeira. Livraria Cultura do Conjunto Nacional, São Paulo.
Hoje, 28 de Novembro, às 19h.
Praça Roosevelt – os projetos
Muitos projetos e estudos já foram feitos para a Praça Roosevelt. Este trabalho de graduação da Gláucia Maia, USP São Carlos, mostra a história e os projetos da praça.
www.saplei.eesc.usp.br/tgi2007/…
Projeto de transformação da praça, feito por um grupo paulistano, para a mostra UIA Istanbul 2005.
www.vitruvius.com.br/institucional/inst98/inst98_08.asp
Novela Praça Roosevelt. Discussão sobre as intervenções e demolições propostas no local, no site do Fórum Centro Vivo.
www.centrovivo.org/node/760
Site de moradores e usuários da praça. Parece que a maioria é contra a demolição da laje pentagonal.
http://pracarooseveltsp.blogspot.com/
Praça Roosevelt – cleaning up
Since the end of last year the square with its concrete structures is awaiting demolition. As the demolition job is still stuck in legal and political processes, the secretary responsible for the area was obliged to open the space again to the public and clean the place up, until further decisions are made. After the elections in the end of this month we´ll probably see a next chapter in the short yet turbulent life of Praça Roosevelt. The removal of the walls revealed the spatial qualities of the original design. Nevertheless it is almost certain that the brutalist concrete structure will be demolished to make place for a new uncovered terraced layout, but who knows…
Photographic survey on October 21 2008
Decolonizing Architecture
“The project Decolonizing Architecture, directed by architects Sandi Hilal, Alessandro Petti and Eyal Weizman and located in Bethlehem/Palestine, is dealing with a complicated architectural problem: How to deal with the future remnants of Israeli colonial Architecture – colonies and military camps – at a time these would be unplugged from the architectural political power of Israel’s regime of occupation.”
Instead of demolishing the evacuated Israeli colonies, the project proposes the transformation of the abandoned structures for different future use. An ungrounding strategy is suggested, meaning the demolishing of only the surface infrastructural occupations, leaving the houses as isolated pavilions in a new continuous, natural and collective context. Reuse and connection of existing buildings are studied, as well as flooding of certain areas.
Neve Decalim before (June 2005) and after (2006) its destruction by the Israelis. 
Courtesy: ARIJ
The settlement P’sagot ungrounded
Unhoming
