For the first time in its history, the São Paulo International Architecture Biennale opened a call for proposals to select the curators for its next edition. Consequently, on August 31, the Instituto de Arquitetos do Brasil - Departamento São Paulo (IABsp) announced the curatorial team that will lead the XII São Paulo International Architecture Biennale.
With the proposal Todo Dia, the winning team is composed of Brazilian architects Ciro Miguel and Vanessa Grossman, alongside French architect Charlotte Malterre-Barthes.
Below is an excerpt from the winning proposal's statement:
"After decades of questioning architecture's ability to fulfill its social mandate and withstand the political, economic, and environmental dilemmas that have historically shaped it, today—despite the will of the architect and the fear of the discipline being supplanted by new automation technologies—a certain widespread sense of powerlessness is being exacerbated."
"In this scenario, architects return to the most basic questions about architecture, its techniques, and origins, giving rise to a new ethics and aesthetics of humility, in which architecture's vulnerability to global changes is taken literally."
"More than fifteen years after Rem Koolhaas's Junkspace manifesto, a movement toward the ordinary, the mundane, and the everyday is emerging, driven by a diffuse notion of how the most trivial reality—that which is inscribed in the everyday ("Todo día")—can contribute to the production of architecture and urbanism."
"Considering that, over the past decade, contemporary theories of the everyday have begun to permeate both the practice and theory of architecture, the Todo Dia curatorial proposal positions the everyday as a privileged platform for researching architecture's effort to remain relevant as a specialized human activity in the 21st century."
The jury comprised Adèle Naudé Santos, André Corrêa do Lago, Carla Juaçaba, Gabriela Leandro, Gloria Cabral, Lu Wenyu, Marisa Moreira Salles, Patricia Anahory, Thiago de Andrade, and Wang Shu, alongside IABsp representatives Fabiane Carneiro, Marcela Ferreira, and Pedro Vada.
The jury evaluated 13 proposals in two phases: in the first, it selected four finalist proposals, which were then evaluated in depth during the second phase. In order of ranking, the finalist proposals were:
Learn more about the winning curatorial team at this link.
This article was written by Equipe ArchDaily Brasil. The translation is powered by AI.
