São Paulo: A Graphic Biography
in São Paulo

Curators
Felipe Correa
Sol Comacho
Anthony Averbeck
Devin Dobrowolski

Escola da Cidade, São Paulo | August 15, 2019

This exhibition curated by Felipe Correa, Sol Camacho, Devin Dobrowolski, Anthony Averbeck in collaboration with Escola da Cidade brings to São Paulo a new reading of this exceptionally complex metropolis and suggests new ways of envisioning its urban future. 

Beyond presenting the first history of Paulista urban form and carefully detailing the formative processes that gave shape to this manufacturing capital, São Paulo shows how the city can transform its post-industrial lands into a series of inner city mixed-use affordable housing districts. By reorienting how we think about these spaces, the exhibition and book offer a compelling vision of a much-needed urban restructuring that can help alleviate the extreme socioeconomic divide between city center and periphery. This twenty-first century urban blueprint presents a unique perspective on how cities can imagine their future.

The opening event involved a lecture by Correa at Instituto de Arquitetos do Brasil (IAB-SP) followed by a conversation between the curators and Escola da Cidade professor Vinicius Andrade.