The winning team of the Co-Curatorship Call of the 13th International Architecture Biennale of São Paulo was announced today, April 29, 2021, by the Institute of Brazilian Architects - Department of São Paulo (IABsp). The Crossings team is made up of nine Brazilian members from different areas: Carolina Piai Vieira, Larissa Francez Zarpelon, Louise Lenate Ferreira da Silva, Luciene Gomes, Pedro Cardoso Smith, Pedro Vinícius Alves, Raíssa Albano de Oliveira, Thiago Sousa Silva and Viviane de Andrade Sá.
Crossings presents that “The urban fabric of Brazilian Cities are structures
highlighted by fragmentation, discontinuities and simultaneities, both physical and symbolic. The origins of this fabric are rooted in the violent processes of colonization and by the transfer of conformations of inequalities and erasures to the cities. The possibility of crossing the immense Brazilian patchwork represents both the sharing of possible urbanities and the opportunity to reinterpret ancestral collective memories. The curatorial idea proposes crossings sections in the city linked to temporary nodes of collective activities of the 13th International Architecture Biennale. ”
The jury, composed of Gabriela de Matos, Sabrina Fontenele, Helena Ayoub Silva,
Naine Terena, João Fernandes, Maria Estela Rocha Ramos Penha, Riva Feitoza, Pedro Rivera, Sepake Angiama and Janet Sanz, evaluated the 11 proposals approved in two phases. In the first phase, it selected 04 finalists and in the second, the winner, chosen unanimously.
