Established in Rio de Janeiro’s northern neighborhood of Tijuca in 1973, the MOPI school was planning to open a facility in the rapidly growing Barra region to the west. Its founders wanted a building that would introduce the private school’s innovative teaching approach to the area’s upwardly mobile population. “So it was fundamental that the building use the same architectural language as our pedagogical philosophy,” says Vinicius Canedo, MOPI administrator and son of school founder Regina Canedo. Canedo sought to break with Brazil’s traditional teaching by promoting creativity and stimulating social and environmental responsibility. MOPI stands for Moderna Organização Pedagógica Infantil, or Modern Organization of Juvenile Pedagogy.
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