Sesc São Paulo has made a series of catalogs, educational materials, and booklets produced for the institution's exhibitions available for free on its website. Fittingly, several of these themes intersect with thinking on architecture and the city.
The institution's archive platform features the following message: “Public access to catalogs, publications, brochures, and educational materials produced for exhibitions held at Sesc São Paulo units expands opportunities for reflection on issues discussed both inside and outside exhibition spaces. It contributes to shaping a sensitive and critical perspective on visual culture, while also forming part of the institution's memory.”
Here, we have selected several catalogs we find relevant to those studying the fields of architecture and urbanism:
Booklet - The Political Architecture of Lina Bo Bardi
This booklet is from the exhibition The Political Architecture of Lina Bo Bardi, held at the Pompeia unit of Sesc São Paulo. The exhibition focused on three major architectural projects designed by the architect: Solar do Unhão (in Salvador, Bahia), MASP (São Paulo Museum of Art), and Sesc Pompeia.
São Paulo is Not a City – Inventions of the Center
The exhibition “offered a reading of downtown São Paulo based on concepts of the city and the contexts of history, art, architecture, urbanism, industry, commerce, and symbolic places, as well as the people, trades, knowledge, and daily lives of this complex and diverse urban composition.”
Entrevendo – Cildo Meireles
“Entrevendo presented 150 works produced since the 1960s, including acclaimed pieces, installations never before shown in Brazil, and other previously unseen works, curated by Júlia Rebouças and Diego Matos. In addition to curatorial texts, the exhibition brochure offers an overview of Cildo Meireles' production, which spans various artistic mediums.”
Many other publications are available on the Sesc São Paulo archive platform, including works from other fields that offer highly necessary and valuable debates for architectural and urban thinking.
This article was written by Victor Delaqua. The translation is powered by AI.
