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SUMMARY:"Arquitetura Nova’s vault house. Within and against the Casa Pau
 listana" a Lecture by Davide Sacconi / TPOD
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DESCRIPTION:Davide Sacconi\nAbstract\n\nBetween 1961 and 1971 the intense 
 collaboration between Sérgio Ferro\, Flávio Imperio and Rodrigo Lefèvre
  – later labelled Arquitetura Nova – produced an exceptional body of
  work. Within a Brazil under construction\, they experimented with theat
 re\, painting\, pedagogical projects\, construction techniques and the org
 anisation of the building site\, reframing the role of the architect as a
  producer and designing architecture as a tool of political action. \n A
 gainst the false hopes of development and its promise of an open democrati
 c society\, Arquitetura Nova pursued an architecture for the people grou
 nded in the needs and means of the uprooted labourers amassing in the Braz
 ilian megalopolis. Working on the rationalisation of popular construction 
 techniques and reclaiming building as a form of collective self-determin
 ation\, they envisioned the construction site as the place where workers c
 ould fight against the alienation and exploitation of their labour.\n Arq
 uitetura Nova’s project materialised in the archetype of the vault-house
 \, developed through a series of single family houses built in the 1960s a
 nd 1970s. While mostly designed for bourgeois intellectual friends\, the v
 ault-house challenged the canons and the hierarchies of the bourgeois dome
 stic space\, prefiguring a culture of building and dwelling suitable for t
 he working class.\n Arquitetura Nova’s vault-house stands out in the ge
 nealogy of the urban villa in São Paulo. From the eclectic Palacete Paul
 istano of the mid-19th century to the early modernist experiments and the
  full-blown development of brutalist and post-modern variations\, the Cas
 a Paulistana has fundamentally shaped the city as much as the power proje
 cted by its ruling class over two centuries. Working within and against th
 is typology\, Arquitetura Nova demonstrated that a new subjectivity could 
 be produced by rethinking the way architecture is designed and built. \n\
 nBio\nDavide Sacconi explores forms of buildings\, cities\, production and
  research through designs\, exhibitions\, books and pedagogical projects. 
 He is particularly interested in the political economic relationships that
  take place between architectural form and its modes of production\, repre
 sentation and use. Taking a position within this complex field of politica
 l and aesthetic relationships the architect has to take a position and ret
 hink its role vis-à-vis the current planetary crises. Davide has been tea
 ching in UK since 2012 at the undergraduate and postgraduate level\, inclu
 ding the MArch Urban Design at the Bartlett UCL\, the BArch at University 
 of Liverpool and the Syracuse University London Program\, of which he has 
 been the director for five years. At the RCA he has run ADS10 since 2017. 
 ADS10 explores the idea of a Savage Architecture: an architecture that is 
 not merely shelter and comfort\, nor display and reproduction of wealth\, 
 but rather the material and symbolic basis of mankind’s necessity to com
 e together and engage in collective rituals.\n\nImage: Rodrigo Lefèvre wi
 th Ronaldo Duschenes and Paulo Madeira\, Dino Zammataro House\, São Paulo
  (1970).© FAUUSP Archive.
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