Posts Tagged ‘brazil’
Symposium– Critical Spatial Practices, Brazil
Symposium-- Critical Spatial Practices, Brazil

The symposium concluding the Brazil Critical Spatial Practices course was held tonight– while various research topics were presented spanning across medium there were strong currents running through everyone’s experience: displacement of self understanding/placing the exotic comparison to the familiar experiential response to unique geography/topography more will come as I digest …

Sep 04, 2010 | Have your say »

How Masonry Block Can Shape A City: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
How Masonry Block Can Shape A City: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

An extremely common sight– and most often overlooked is the masonry block which seems to reproduce– sprouting and filling “in-between” spaces, patching holes, constructing walls spanning neighborhoods, class and aesthetic. After visiting Corcovado, Sugar Loaf Mountain, Copacabana Palace, and every other sensory-overloaded-tourist attraction that Rio had to offer– I take back the vision of masonry […]

Sep 02, 2010 | Have your say »