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?