Marcos Acayaba, Cidade Jardim, Sao Paulo, Brasil, 1972
OfHouses guest curated by CI-AA : “Marcos Acayaba studied architecture in the 1960s at FAU-USP, where Artigas was the most important and representative professor of the established “Paulista School”. However,
early in his career, Acayaba chose to conduct a more formal
strategy in his projects, as seen in the Milan House he designed with his wife Marlene Milan. This house demonstrates a clear reference to the curvaceous and poetic architecture of Oscar Niemeyer, even though Acayaba had learned about a more rational architecture with Artigas. The ideological
dichotomy presented in this project, prompts us to imagine the
Millan House as a built example of an utopian synthesis between the collective and pragmatic brutalism from São Paulo
and Niemeyer’s plastic modernism.” (Photos: © Nelson Kon.)
