Oscar Niemeyer

Yesterday it was Oscar Niemeyer´s birthday, 102 years old!

Here one of his great works in Niteroi, a museum of modern art.

stealth shelter

Together with our friend Architect Paulo Augusto de Marques Mendes we wrote this paper about public space and leisure. It was selected by the competition panel and published in the book Bubbel by Platform GRAS and AX710 in Groningen.

https://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0B1fq5ODIYL4iMzJiNWViMjgtYTFiMC00MTAyLWI1N2MtMjc3NjBhNzdjOGM0&hl=en

Guarujá

Way back in the year 2000 we built this summerhouse. How time flies...

Henry Moore in Brasilia

Exhibition at the cultural centre of the Banco do Brasil in Brasilia, 2005.

Galeria de Rock

In the middle of the city centre I went to see the Galeria de Rock today, known for its shops of sneakers, t-shirts, rockmusic and tattoo´s. To my surprise I find a very nice garden on the rooftop of it with fruit trees, like plums and pitangas. Here we will do our next Rambler workshops. And from the rooftop a very nice different view of São Paulo, you can see the Teatro Municipal but also the praça Paissandu with his little church.

Paraty

Paraty, some 400 km. north of São Paulo, last weekend with rain but still beautifull.

silhuetas a tarde

São Paulo, 20 de outubro de 2009 - afternoon

Anti stealth shelter

Nosso projeto de plataforma de unidade móvel para a polícia holandesa desenvolvido para o concurso aberto em 2007. Our project for a competition in 2007 for a surveillance plataform for the ducth police.

Grua instalada pela polícia de BH para vigilancia. Police surveillance plataform in Belo Horizonte.

Brazilian graffiti at Tate Modern

Brazilian graffiti artists, os Gemeos, on the façade of the Tate Modern in London, august 2008.

'We tried to search for more Brazilian roots, not just folklore or popular Brazilian culture, but something that myself and my brother always believed in, the world that we created" (Os Gêmeos)

na laje

One of our works on the 19th floor of a residential building in São Paulo. The project was executed by Construtora Lúcida of our friend Edu Okamoto.

MASP

Xavier made this model of the MASP with LEGO.

favela do moinho

These pictures I made in the ´favela do moinho´ in the centre of São Paulo during a visit of Dutch artist Marielle Videler who was making the city one minutes of São Paulo. To see the results, visit the site http://www.cityoneminutes.org/

Goat by bike

In Tete, inner land of Mozambique, population has to face many challenges in daily life. This is an excellent example of the human creativity: how to transport a goat by bike?
The picture was taken at the Bridge over the Zambeze river in Tete by a colleague.

Imitation of Life

Near the Pincoteca, hundreds of old rubber shoes. Art?

BOUSIER-MOUGENOT at Pinacoteca.SP

Fantastic combination of visual arts, music, and chaos theory at Pinacoteca.SP

The real street market

Traffic jam is a good opportunity to sell things. And you know, Sampa is the land of the opportunities!

Bikes in Sampa

Last saturday bikes invaded the streets of São Paulo and we were there. We hope it will become more frequent!

urban age report

The Urban Age report ´Cities and Social Equity´ has come out with a lot of research work of Fred. You can find it on the website: http://www.urbanage.net/publications/reports/southAmerica/

Topografia Social

´Topografia Social de Diadema´ has come out, a research done for the municipality of Diadema (one of the cities part of the metropolitan region of São Paulo) supervised by Prof. Aldaiza Sposati.

Brasilia in wintertime - picture made in july of 2005

Delft

Just remembered the burned down Faculty of Architecture in Delft which I by chance visited last year, very impressive.

First image of Mozambique, the famous tree of Baobá or ´embomdeiro´ in portuguese. This impresive tree is the symbol of the transitoriness of life.

cd-dvd stow away

This is our very new cupboard for cd´s and dvd´s designed by Femke with a very nice detail of Fred.

Rambler

Carmen send me this very nice flyer of our work at Galeria Olido in april/may 2009 with the streetkids of the ´abrigo Joselito Lopes Martins´ and the ´pixadores´.

From the window we see the built-up inequality of Rio de Janeiro city.

F2HR

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