“At one time, Brazilian architecture was dominated by hybrids of classic European forms. Then came Modernism, which started with Niemeyer and the realization of his Pampulha neighborhood in Belo Horizonte in the 1940s.
By the middle of the 1960s, especially in São Paulo, Modernism had become very radical. Architects were able to impose their concepts on clients, which produced our rich architectural heritage. Designers managed to realize their ideas, but they produced houses that were cold and unattractive to live in. Houses made of concrete at a time when, here, we had no heating or air-conditioning meant homes that were cold in winter and hot in summer. There were houses without windows, ones with floors made of concrete. These are hugely interesting projects but not spaces for living in. They were extremely uncomfortable.
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