ArchitectureWeek Notes No. 351
ArchitectureWeek Editors
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Fri Sep 28 04:30:07 PDT 2007
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PUBLIC ARCHITECTURE OF CURITIBA
by Kevin Matthews
http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0926/culture_1-1.html
Curitiba, Brazil - called "the world's greenest city" by
the New York Times Magazine in May 2007 - is
increasingly well known for its long-term success in
integrated land use, transportation, and environmental
planning, including its exciting public bus system. Less
well known is the extensive program of public
architecture that helps animate the urban fabric of the
city, weaving together parks and open space, tourism,
urban identity, and industrial reclamation.
Is intensive, activist environmentalism antithetical to
design and aesthetics? The word from this gritty,
hard-working city is, "Heck, no." In Curitiba, broadly
integrated environmentalism and outstanding design
aesthetics go delightedly hand in hand - and the
samba plays all night!
The obvious headliner, known locally as the "Eye Museum,"
is the Museo Oscar Niemeyer, a recent work by the giant
of Brazilian modernism himself. The bulk of the museum
is composed of a broad horizontal slab hovering a short
story above a broad matching plinth that houses a
majority of the program space. This layered block is
accessed by sinuously curving pedestrian ramps,
connecting across the center of a large reflecting pool,
via a sensuously expressive urban-observatory tower, the
urban "eye" itself.
With about 1.8 million residents, Curitiba occupies
rolling terrain in the southern Brazilian state of
Parana, far from Amazonia. High-rise dwellings and
substantial density around thoughtfully planned
transportation corridors characterize the urban core,
relieved by green belts, parks, and a widely green
landscape supported by extensive tree planting and strict
tree preservation rules.
One would like to think that, in a city governed for a
generation largely by architects, there might be a
significant role for public architecture. And so it is
in Curitiba.
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Even if global greenhouse gas emissions were to stop
increasing today, the climate would continue to warm.
That was the stark reality underlined in February 2007 by
the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
The world is changing today in a way that has never
happened before in the history of architecture.
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People and Places
by Nancy Novitski
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