Vilanova Artigas, Campo Belo, Sao Paulo, Brasil, 1942
OfHouses guest curated by CI-AA : ”Vilanova Artigas designed this house for himself in 1942, four
years after his graduation, which shows his early maturity as
an architect. The clear influence of Frank Lloyd Wright, which
he references widely in his initial projects, becomes the means
of a formal release. The sincerity in the use of construction
materials, as advocated by Wright, is brought to another almost raw level in this house: there is no facade, just juxtaposed volumes. We believe that the known projective guidelines
disseminated by Artigas in the following decades, the essence
of the “Paulista School”, are present as a whole in this project.” (Photos: © Nelson Kon, Joao Batista Vilanova Artigas Archive.)
