Segue-se Ver o que Quisesse

05/16/2012 02:02 pm

Posted on the website Vazio S/A and already published on a global scale, Vazio S/A’s Topographical Amnesias had a recent development from the question: could there be a garden in a hermetic “palafitte”? Is there any possibility of life in those which are the coolest and most obscure spaces of Belo Horizonte? Because not all of them are open, hence the idea of completing this project with a representation of the total darkness of the closed stilts – architectural spaces absolutely and radically detached from the city.

These are the pictures that architect Carlos Teixeira presents in the show “Segue-se Ver o que Quisesse” now showing at Palacio das Artes (Belo Horizonte, Brazil) from 22 May. Curated by photographer and director of the Centre de la Photographie in Geneva (Switzerland) Joerg Bader, the approximately 470 works on display can be seen in three galleries of the cultural center, and at the Center for Contemporary Art and Photography. Among the 39 photographers (collectives, professional and amateur artists, photojournalists, graphic artists, community groups and other professionals) selected for the show, there are names recognized on the national and international scene.

About Joerg Bader, Curator
Joerg Bader is Swiss, director of the Centre de la Photographie Geneva (Switzerland) – one of the main institutions dedicated to photography in Europe, venue of the Triennial 50JPG (50 Jours pour la Photographie at Geneva). He is a professor at the Haute Ecole d’Art in France, professor of theory and history of photography in the Haute Ecole d’Art et de Design (Head) in Geneva, and of history of media in the School of Design at Basel, Switzerland. Art critic, he writes for publications such as the French magazine Art Press and the German art magazine Kunstforum International. He started as an assistant photographer in Zurich, Switzerland, becoming an independent photographer in Paris. He has done solo exhibitions in Antwerp, Zurich, Geneva, Paris and Turin.

Photographers and Artists of the Exhibition
Alexandre Lopes, Alexandre Sequeira, Andrew Hauck, Barbara Schall, Caio Reisewitz, Cao Guimarães, Carlos Teixeira, Cyro Almeida, Daniel Moreira, Daniel Goulart, Fabian Figueiredo, Fotoprojeto Tikmu’un (with Maxakalis Indians), Frederico Camera, Guilherme Cunha, Joao Castillo, Leonardo Costa Braga, Mabe Bethônico, Marcelo Coelho, Marcelo Drummond, Marcelo Oliveira, Marcelo Prates, Marcilio Gazzinelli, Projeto na Cidade (with Patricia Azevedo), Julian Germain, Murilo Godoy, Paulo Baptista, Paulo Laborne, Paulo Nazareth, Pedro David, Pedro Motta, Rafael Fernandes, Renata Marquez & Wellington Cançado, Rivane Neuenschwander, Rodrigo Albert, Rodrigo Mendes, Rodrigo Zefferino, Rosangela Renno, Rui Cesar dos Santos, Tiberio França, Warley Assis and Wilson Baptista.

Information
Segue-se ver o que quisesse
Curator: Joerg Bader
Date: May 23 to July 14, 2012
Location: Palacio das Artes – 1537 Afonso Pena Ave. – Belo Horizonte MG; and Center for Contemporary Art and Photography – 737 Afonso Pena Ave. – Belo Horizonte MG.
Free admission.
Opening hours: Tuesday to Saturday from 9:30am to 9pm; Sundays from 4pm to 9pm.
Tel: 55 (31) 3236-7400

Simbio – Now Extended to 20 May

05/15/2012 09:15 pm

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Paperwork #2

05/08/2012 06:00 pm
Paperwork magazine, published quarterly by the London publisher Black Dog to disseminate its books and authors, published our project The Ultimate Skyscraper (Carlos Teixeira & Vasco Mourao) as the cover story of its latest issue – along with works by Krzysztof Wodiczko, Michael Wilkinson and others.
Entre (Carlos Teixeira, ICC, 2010), released in Brazil in the last Sao Paulo Art Biennial, will be published in June by Black Dog with the title “Entre -Architecture from the Performing Arts.”

Grafts

04/27/2012 01:13 pm

Grafts (Carlos Teixeira + Fernando Maculan + Leonardo Costa Braga)

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Between the conception of a space and its implementation there is a gap that deforms and updates the original intentions of the architect at once. Over the life of an area or city, this gap tends to increase, bringing new factors into the equation originally settled in the design act. Mindful of this dynamic and willing to make it a creative and political potential, “Grafts” is a reflection on the parameters odd to a huge fraction of architectural designs: the passage of time and speed of transformation of the urban landscape, the character of the occupation of any space during events, and the hiddeen potential of urban voids spaces and unnamed places of the city.

In 2008, a set of furniture and landscape design built in the garden of the architect [CarlosTeixeira] were fixed with screws on the trunks of large trees. Since then, some details of this set show how the trees were able not only to live with these artificial inserts as well as incorporating them to their growth as permanent prostheses. These prostheses were then brought to this exhibition as dissociated from the original  processes, where destruction is followed by a spontaneous reconstruction, where an assault shortly after turns on the aggressor and slowly appears to be even more aggressive than the first aggressive act.
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“Graft”, part of the show Simbio on display at Palacio das Artes, Belo Horizonte (Brazil), is actually a result of a collaborative work and would not happen were not the fundamental contributions from Fernando Maculan (expography) and Leonardo Costa Braga (photographic essay).Both departed from these domes to then manipulate and transform them, all resulting in an overlap between the photo essay by LCB and the domes by CT spatially articulated in FM’s expography.

Simbio
April 25 to May 13 – 2012
Palácio das Artes – Mari’Stella Tristão Room
tuesday to saturday: 9:30AM to 9PM; sunday: 4PM to 9PM
Free entry
Info: (05531) 3236-7400

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Simbio 2012

04/19/2012 04:46 pm

We would like to invite everyone to the opening of the exhibition Simbio at Palacio das Artes, Belo Horizonte (Brazil). Simbio is an exhibition where the six invited artists must work with two collaborators  and where the result should reflect this process done at six hands.  Carlos Teixeira (Vazio S/A) invited the architect  Fernando Maculan (museology) and the artist  Leonardo Costa Braga (photo essay) to jointly submit “Grafts”, a work that uses the process of a garden as its starting point.

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Simbio
Simbio reaches its second edition and once again have the dialogue between the arts as its  main moto. The project – conceived by art director Jeff Santos and conducted by Mercado Moderno – proposes to approach issues such as collaborative art and artistic symbiosis. “Simbio acts to contribute to the formation of new creators, enabling the research, training, exchange, circulation and production of thought in various forms of artistic expression,” says the director. At first, six artists from different areas were invited, and then each selected two or three collaborators from a field of knowledge different than theirs, to then develop a work to be exhibited from April 24 to May 13. The artists are: Binho Barreto (design), Carlos Teixeira (architecture), Clarissa Campolina (audiovisual), Felipe Turcheti (multimedia and programming), Julia Panades (poetry) and Raquel Schembri (illustration).

Abstract
Enxertos (Grafts)
Carlos Teixeira (architecture), Fernando Maculan (designer) and Leonardo Costa Braga (artist photographer)
Grafting is a project that began as an investigation into the passage of time in a garden, and explores nature as a process of resistances and resignations, frictions and attractions, growth and rejection. Work designed at six hands, the photographer Leonardo Costa Braga made a new essay that departs from the state in which the garden is today, while the architect Fernando Maculan made the museography starting from objects in process of decomposition that represent the time, resistances and the resignations of the garden.
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Simbio
Opening: 24 April 2012
Exhibition: 25 April to 13 May 2012
Graphic Design: Voltz Design
Participants:
Binho Barreto – collaborators: Eurico Fernandes and Guilherme Lessa
Carlos Teixeira –  collaborators: Fernando Maculan and Leonardo Costa Braga
Clarissa Campolina –  collaborators: O Grivo, Joana Hardy and Antônio Valladares
Felipe Turcheti –  collaborators: Pedro Veneroso and Tiago Mata Machado
Julia Panadés –  collaborators: Gilda Quintão, Pablo Lobato and Mariana Hardy
Raquel Schembri –  collaborators: Ricardo Portilho, Dragana Brankovi and Shima

Palacio das Artes: Av. Afonso Pena 1537 , Belo Horizonte MG

Work of the Year 2011

04/16/2012 01:08 pm

The international website Plataforma Arquitectura has just launched the competition “Work of the Year 2011″, in which our 285 Montevideo is one of the nominees. Vote Vazio S/A!

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Seminario Internacional Ciudad Arquitectura Informal

02/01/2012 01:01 pm

After an invite of director Ione Medeiros, Carlos Teixeira | Vazio S/A organized an international seminar in order to discuss Brazilian architecture together with today’s best South American architects. Cidade Arquitetura Informal is part of Verão Arte Contemporânea (13/jan to 12/feb), a festival in its sixth year that, besides music, dance, literature and theater shows, this year also includes architecture in its schedule. The seminar ambition is to discuss what happens in Brazil now within a larger, Latin American context — a region that, after decades of economic stagnation, today produces one of the most vibrant architectural scenes of the planet.
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Seminario Arquitectura Ciudad Informal

Festival Verão Arte Contemporânea
Teatro Oi Futuro – Av. Afonso Pena 4001
Belo Horizonte, Brasil
3-4 febrero
Curadoria: Carlos Teixeira | Vazio S/A
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Brasil es un país increíblemente paralizado por las glorias de su modernidad: los héroes modernos locales han llevado a crear más anclas que vientos, más cárceles que incubadoras. Todos sabemos que la ciudad de hoy es más informal de lo que deseaban los modernos, menos controlada de lo que quieren sus planificadores, y totalmente ajena a los esfuerzos de las organizaciones que no la consideran por sí misma. Pero precisamente en el momento donde la crítica a la modernidad es lugar común en bienales de arte y en la arquitectura internacional, el país sigue siendo el último continuador de una tradición anacrónica.

Ciudad Arquitectura Informal discute la ciudad no como algo bajo el control de prácticas deterministas y vocabularios pasados, sino como sistemas que deben ser vistos por la informalidad y el desorden que hoy se presenta no sólo en las ciudades de América Latina, sino en todas las grandes ciudades de los países desarrollados y los países emergentes. Pues, por primera vez durante muchas y muchas décadas, parece que se evidencian señales de que hay algo que puede ser visto como otro proceso de modernización y de una nueva vanguardia meridional de ámbito continental. Los gobiernos con recursos, junto con las prácticas privadas, han desarrollado enfoques innovadores en la arquitectura y el diseño urbano que muestran estrategias que tienen menos que ver con esquemas utópicos y más con el concepto de acupuntura urbana y de nuevas prácticas formales; de un trabajo desde la informalidad, uniendo las diferentes partes de la ciudad y mostrando, simultáneamente, gran creatividad plástica.

Por este motivo, este seminario busca aproximar lo que es nuevo en América Latina y discutir el estado de la arquitectura en Brasil con los mejores actores de la región.

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Programación

>03/feb Viernes
19h Informalidad y Arquitectura hoy
Natacha Rena, BH: Projeto Asas + Deseja.ca
Flavio Agostini (M3 Arquitetura), BH: Parque H3O
Federico Mesa (plan:b arquitectos), Colombia: La Revolución de Medellín
Moderador: Carlos Teixeira

>04/feb Sábado
9h Panoramas de la Ciudad Contemporánea
Marta Bogéa, SP: Território: Paisajes Justapostas: Colages
Roberto Andrés (Superfície.org), BH: Arquitectura e Interese Público
Ana Rascovsky (Ana Rascovsky Arqs./Supersudaca), Argentina: Arquitectura y Paisaje
Moderador: a definir

11:45h Nueva Arquitectura Latinoamericana
Bruno Campos (BCMF Arquitetos), BH: Nuevo Mineirão/Proyecto Executivo
Marcio Gibram y Karine Oliveira (PMBH), BH: Programa Vila Viva
Mauricio Pezo (Pezo von Ellrichshausen Architects), Chile: Arquitectura Absoluta
Moderador: Carlos Alberto Maciel

Entrada gratuita. Read More »

e-architect’s Editorial

01/28/2012 12:14 pm
Last week, website e-architect published the editorial Architecture and Art (below), written by Carlos Teixeira on the Australian architects Durbach Block Jagger. Each week, the website invites a critic or architect to present its new projects.
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House Holman, by Durbach Block Jagger in Sidney is a nice surprise from these Australian architects, who state in their website that the house refers to Picasso’s painting The Bather. Although built in 2004, it seems not to be well known outside Australia and shows a rare sensibility towards site and landscape.

Indeed, it is sculptural almost like an amorphous cubist shape by a sea cliff, the overall effect showing monumentality and discretion, sensuality and detachment, as if two different sensibilities inhabit this building. Not many drawings are available, but House Holman seems to be a sincere celebration of both painting and architecture (something outdated these days), as the architects design with equal concern for plan and space, 2 and 3D, one not overshadowing the other.

Unlike most of contemporary iconic buildings, it does not have a wasted shape or gesture, with the elements working together to create a spectacular yet adequate insertion into the landscape. The only drawing we are shown is a 3D diagram where the flux of form seems fluid, as if a dynamic process were frozen – in a fresh, updated modernist aesthetic that resembles 20th century Spanish sculptors, Burle Marx’s gardens, Enric Miralles early work and other artists and architects that knew how to work with formal impact and the transformation of form.

Compared with this house, the Green Solution House, designed by 3XN Architects / William McDonough + Partners, is more responsible, coherent and sustainable – but maybe it also shows us that scientific analyses and the environmental movement are not enough.

This week’s guest editor, Carlos M Teixeira, is the founder of Vazio S/A, an architecture studio based in Brazil. He has shown his work at Venice Biennale, the Victoria & Albert Museum, Sao Paulo International Art Biennale and others. His latest book, “Entre”, will be published in English by Black Dog this year.

World Architecture News’ editorial

01/28/2012 11:49 am

Website World Architecture News has just published “Breaking Down Barriers”, an editorial on Tamarineira Park, our competition entry for a park in Recife, Brazil in which a 19th century psychiatric hospital is converted into a park/hospital/museum.

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Breaking down Barriers
Social facilities on site of 1874 Brazilian psychiatric hospital look to integrate patients with local Recife community

Tamarineira Psychiatric Hospital in the Brazilian city of Recife was constructed in 1874 and its residents ostracised from the local community. The remote situation of this mental healthcare facility has aided the social separation of the Hospital’s patients from the rest of the town’s residents and a national design competition was launched to close the gap between these two groups.

This submission was entered by Vazio S/A, proposing an open public parkland around the hospital facility and a ‘Museum of Madness’ to encourage the community to let down their social boundaries. The design studio explains: “Questioning the spatial practices generally employed in old psychiatric treatments, it proposes sports facilities in the park and an educational/vocation centre within the neoclassical hospital, supporting the idea of opening this institution to Recife and appreciating it with a new landscape design that complements and supports the existing vegetation.”

The foliage-rich concept incorporates varying heights of plantlife, from pale-barked trees to wispy shrubs and regimented hedges, all marking shifts in the site typologies. An area of concrete gym facilities is bordered by low shrubs while sparkling ponds are edged in rows of slender trees. These green areas form a buffer between the institution’s patients and the Recife community and act a vital part of Vazio’s plan to slowly integrate these two groups through social activities.

Evolo Skycrapers – the book

01/07/2012 01:10 am
With hundreds of skyscrapers’ designs in 1,224 pages, the book e-Volo has just been launched in a limited edition of 500 copies. E-Volo — Rethinking the Skyscraper is a contest that in the last six years received 4,000 proposals from architects all over the world, out of which 300 were compiled in the big book. Carlos M Teixeira (Vazio S/A) participates with the Never Ending Tower (2006).

Symptomatically presented in the very last pages, the project is the only one that is not a formal exercise done with digital tools (= twisted virtual amoebas), the only one presented as a narrative, and one of the few entries that explores the theme of vertical architecture with a minimum of critical scrutiny. In general, the proposals are naive and condescending, all reflecting the numb state in which contemporary digital architects are in. The skyscraper’s narrative was written by Carlos, who also made the  sketches of the first version. Then he invited architect Bruno Campos (BCMF Arquitetos) to redraw the story with his comics-influenced night stroke – and this is the version published in this massive 10-pound catalog (pictured below). Some years later, the story would be redesigned once again by Portuguese illustrator Vasco Mourao, and this is the version published in The Absolute Condominium (C/Arte, 2009, Carlos M Teixeira & Vasco Mourao) and in the november/2011 issue of  Time Out SP magazine (see post below).

ArchDaily outlined seven of the 300 projects, including our Never Ending Tower.

Below, the presentation that appears in the book:

“The contest recognizes outstanding ideas that redefine skyscraper design through the implementation of new technologies, materials, programs, aesthetics, and spatial organizations. Studies on globalization, flexibility, adaptability, and the digital revolution are some of the multi-layered elements of the competition. It is an investigation on the public and private space and the role of the individual and the collective in the creation of dynamic and adaptive vertical communities. Over the last six years, an international panel of renowned architects, engineers, and city planners have reviewed more than 4,000 projects submitted from 168 countries around the world. Read More »