Title: Paulo Mendes da Rocha
First published: 2007
Description: This book revolves around the drawings and scale models especially selected by architect Paulo Mendes da Rocha, who was conferred the degree of Doctorate Honoris Causa by the Universidad Nacional del Litoral in 2009. The personal selection done by PMdR resulted in a publishing project that included the participation of a group of academics from Brazil, Uruguay and Argentina convened so that, by means of short texts, freely elaborated their perspective on those drawings. The book is, therefore, the result of a collective work whose purpose is to think the architecture from its most common resources: drawing and scale model. PMdR has also contributed with a text specially elaborated for this publication.
Subjects: Catalogs, Architecture, History, Arquitetura moderna, Arquitetura moderna (projeto e construção), Architects, Criticism and interpretation, Modern Architecture, Designs and plans
People: Paulo Mendes da Rocha (1928-)
LC classification: NA859.M46 A4 2007