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It is almost as if the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism in São Paulo, designed in 1961 by João Vilanova Artigas, had been endowed with the gift of flight, hanging sus- pended in the air. But as soon as he entered the stage was received with great affection and applause. Their achievements have been produced in an immense country that has provided the architecture of the 20th century with talents of the highest calibre: from estab- lished masters such as João Vilanova Artigas, Rino Levi and Affonso Eduardo Reidy to such less familiar figures as the Roberto brothers, João Filgueiras Lima or the partnership of Claudio Araújo and Carlos Fayet, without overlooking the exceptional contribution most important landscape architect of the 20th century: Roberto Burle Marx.

Confidence in the modern project

The work of Paulo Mendes da Rocha is an unambiguous expression of confidence in a modern project that is still con- sidered to be insufficiently implanted in the cities of Brazil.

Curiously, the point at which Paulist and Brutalist architecture come closest to one another is in some of the early works by the Swiss architects Atelier 5. On the other hand, they are united by a common conception of the building as autonomous object, as sculpture. We ended up friends.

He has received many compliments from all sides, even people who never expected. "The relationship with the Kenyan Jeremy has lasted a month after the Big Brother. The museum is thus to be read in the same way as the very first museums, a cave filled with treasure, a mediaeval crypt or an archaeological excavation. For example, the FORMA shop in São Paulo consists of a box raised up on two systems of rein- forced concrete walls, with a facade of sheet metal and glass suspended with great sophistication from this wall system by means of a complex and somewhat abstruse series of anchors that is only rendered intelligible in the interior.

Lina Bo Bardi and Paulo Mendes da Rocha have also pursued diametrically opposed courses, the expression of two different ways of understanding modern architecture.

"As India has Bollywood, Nigeria is Nollywood."

END OF BIG BROTHER AFRICARival Emma Richards, 29, reached the final of the fourth series of Big Brother Africa stage of the competition where they were four competitors of other nationalities Edward (Namibia), Mzamo (Malawi), Nkenna (Nigeria) and Kevin (Nigeria) . It was also an opportunity for friends, one of them even came to be her boyfriend.

"I was so nervous singing in front of an audience that barely knew me and did not even speak the same language," he recalls.

Almost gave up so much fear. In this respect, Mendes da Rocha con- siders himself to be as close to Vilanova Artigas as to Niemeyer. A modern project that is based on a mastery of technical know- ledge, on a conceptual intensity, on the mechanism of abstrac- tion, on a concern with insertion in the urban fabric and on a clear social commitment.

At all events, the architecture of this Paulist school, based on forms closed on the exterior, on “sandwich" spaces derived from Mies that take the form of boxes raised on pilotis, with interior courtyards and gardens and concrete furniture, has been taken to its limits by Mendes da Rocha.

A relationship has been remarked between the Paulist school and the “Brutalist” architecture identified in the fifties by the British critic Reyner Banham.

A mastery that Paulo Mendes da Rocha and his partner João Eduardo de Gennaro demonstrated with unequivocal clarity even in their first pro- ject the gymnasium for the Clube Atlético Paulistano in São Paulo (1957): a great rectangular platform with a spectacular flattened cupola, circular in plan, virtually suspended in the air.

The so-called Paulist school

Although a local reading of Paulist or São Paulo architec- ture can legitimately arrive at great precision and rigour, a more distanced view, from the perspective of the international panorama, can offer —in spite of its inevitable simplifica- tions— some idea of the overall achievement in terms of com- mon characteristics that are not easily discerned in close prox- imity.

In Paulo Mendes da Rocha’s work, there is a pure and inseparable chemical synthesis of different references: his own tenaciously held poetics, the involvement in the revolutionary formal thinking of the Paulist school, and the concurrence with the most minimalist referents that have appeared on the inter- national scene in the course of the 20th century, from Mies to the late coincidence with Tadao Ando, by way of the distant memory of British Brutalism.

Within this catalogue of influences, it is evident that João Vilanova Artigas opened the way for several generations of São Paulo architects.

She has a great Passion in Music and the singer released her first single, the rhythm of Zouk and Kizomba.

 
The gift of song 

Emma (whose full name is Mary Immaculate Baptista da Rocha) is defined as an extrovert, playful, sometimes stubborn, sometimes shy, grumpy and friend of his friends.

Played in final duel with Kevin, won the Nigerian.