Designed Future / Paulo Mendes da Rocha

Designed Future / Paulo Mendes da Rocha

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Designed Future is a journey through the modern era: our life in cities, the Americas, new territories and the old continent, of vision and design as essential tools for building the future.

As the most complete collection of essays, interviews and lectures, this book is an in-depth view of the journey and particular thinking of one of the most contemporary architects, the Brazilian modern master, Paulo Mendes da Rocha (1928-2021).

For the first time translated in English, it disclosures a must-read intense and provocative thinker in contemporary times.

Hardcover, 22 x 15,5 cm, 248 pages
41 archive photos and croquis

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“I have hope, I have optimism. It’s the dimension within the force that history has already shown us, the force that exists in popular culture. We are not ready, and we do not wish to be ready. We count on this eternal incompleteness. We’re born and know we’re going to die. And why don’t we get discouraged? What is this enthusiasm? It’s the certainty that we are not born to die; we are born to begin. Each of us begins everything.”

— Paulo Mendes da Rocha

“Architecture doesn’t aim at an aesthetic unconnected to social reality. On the contrary, it can only exist while connected to that reality and, alongside it, triumph in a tremendous adventure, which is living.”

— Paulo Mendes da Rocha

“… a book that we point out, sure of the interest it will arouse among readers.”

— Casabella 897

Edition by Daniela Sá, Guilherme Wisnik and João Carmo Simões
Hardcover, 22 x 15,5 cm, 248 pages
41 archive photos and croquis
ISBN 978 989 99485 6 3
English version