Oct 23, 2009

Paraty

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



Oct 21, 2009

silhuetas a tarde

São Paulo, 20 de outubro de 2009 - afternoon

Oct 15, 2009

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.

Oct 13, 2009

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)

Oct 7, 2009

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.

Oct 1, 2009

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/



Sep 18, 2009

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.

Sep 15, 2009

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

Sep 11, 2009

The real street market

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

Sep 8, 2009

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/

Jul 27, 2009

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.




Who we are

Femke Hoogkamer and Frederico Roman Ramos are architects and urban researchers. f2hr.contact@gmail.com