São Paulo studios of Brazilian architects including Paulo Mendes da Rocha captured in photos
Brazilian architect Paulo Mendes da Rocha is captured at work in this photoset by photographer Marc Goodwin, which offers a behind-the-scenes glimpse of 20 architecture offices in São Paulo.
The São Paulo series is the latest in Goodwin's project to document architecture studios in cities across the world, following recent trips to workplaces Mexico City, Panama City and Los Angeles.
The set includes the workplace that Paulo Mendes da Rocha, one of Brazil's most celebrated architects, has occupied since 1979. Goodwin said that meeting the 90-year-old architect, who he captured holding an architecture model, as a "highlight" of the trip.
"He was staggeringly youthful for a man nearly 90 years of age," Goodwin told Dezeen. "I am quite sure he has more energy than me and he spoke without pause about several of his projects, walking around the room to point out and pick different models to explain them together with technical facts interspersed with witty anecdotes." "It felt a bit like meeting Le Corbusier and was a great honour," he added.
The workplace of Studio MK27, founded in the 1970s by Brazilian architect Marcio Kogan, and FGMF Arquitetos, founded in 1991, are among the offices captured.
The photographer, who runs the studio Archmospheres, toured 20 offices in total ? providing evidence of its booming architecture scene. He found a number in a cluster together.
"The studios are nearly all within a few blocks of each ot...
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