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Adherent to an unusual strategy – that of praising voids instead of solids, mobility instead of fixity – architect Carlos Teixeira proposes in this book a subversion of the look focused on the formation and future of our cities. The author questions landmarks and monuments as stable forms of the city’s memory, and invests precisely in their opposite: in the absence of structured symbols, in anti-construction and in the complex vitality of the here and now. By taking the discontinuous history of Belo Horizonte as a starting point, Carlos captures a process inherent in almost all Brazilian metropolises – perhaps in all emerging countries –, torn between attachment to fixed, canonical forms, and total uprooting.
The author transports this conflict to the very structure of the book, whose interweaving of texts and images resembles, in many respects, the complex road network of a large city. Hence his use of a very wide range of references: from the classic history of architecture to cinema, with numerous incursions into music, literature and visual arts. As if only at the intersection of several roads, in the almost infinite ramification of languages, we could apprehend – in an urgent and vital way – the energy that circulates through the voids and public spaces of the city.
This second edition, revised and expanded by Romano Guerra Publishers, features a new graphic design by Alles Blau, an introduction by architect Rita Velloso and a new preface by philosopher Jacques Leenhardt:
“The bet on the origin of this book, therefore, promises to be speculative and poetic in itself, insofar as it involves a completely Nietzschean reversal of values. (…) If this book is an appeal to the freedom to feel and think, and of thinking while dreaming, it is because the urban catastrophe is never final, that there will always be activities and desires to renew it. Faced with the impasse created by the blind filling of urban space, Carlos invites us to be faithfully attentive to the surprising possibilities of the voids.”
Leenhardt, 2021
Carlos M Teixeira; Romano Guerra; 2022; 384p; 21×27 cm; Português/Inglês; ISBN: 978-65-87205-20-5
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Excerpts of reviews on History of the Void in BH
“Carlos Teixeira’s book about ‘no-place’ – Belo Horizonte, Brazil – is a compelling artifact that reveals all the magic and complexity involved in the making of a modern city. The presence of a soul. The warmth of a culture, a passion for expression – in the void of history. This beautifully designed document reveals all contradictions on the surface, a work of mysterious layers that reflect the ambivalence of inhabiting the heart of Minas Gerais.”
Alberto Perez-Gomez, History & Theory Graduate Program, School of Architecture, McGill University, Montreal, Canadá
“A book like this, full of ambivalence and ‘irresponsibility’, helps us to commit ourselves to the future that is being drawn at our feet.”
João Paulo, Estado de Minas
“[The book is] the result of intense historical and documentary research, which aims to defend a precise thesis: that the best way to preserve the quality of life in metropolises that are intensely populated and exploited in a disorganised way is to preserve the few voids that exist.”
Maria Hirszman, O Estado de São Paulo
“Beautiful, fascinating and intriguing at the same time and in every way, from conception to realisation, from photographs to graphic presentation, the work is accompanied by a dense and controversial text.”
Érico Siriuba Stickel, in Uma Pequena Biblioteca Particular
Advertising folder
Belo Horizonte, Brazil
2011
Instituto Cidades Criativas
#2 Progress
Belo Horizonte, Brazil
April, 2011
Fragments of everyday life in Minas Gerais reflected in its photographic production
Curator – Joerg Bader
Clóvis Salgado Foundation
Belo Horizonte, Brazil
2012
Embassy of Brazil in London
London, UK
Jun/ Aug, 2010
Loft Publications
320 p.
Spain
2011
Under Construction: History of the Void in Belo Horizonte is an essay on urban informality, lack of planning, the postcard, photography and, of course, the void. Departing from a text on photography (Photography and the Periphery, Master’s Degree dissertation) presented at the Architectural Association, the book outlines a possible way of working in the city under construction, extolling destruction, leading to an inverted aesthetic reading of the postcard and paying attention to the latent voids of the city. This bilingual edition is out of print.
TEIXEIRA, Carlos Moreira. Em obras. História do vazio em Belo Horizonte. São Paulo, Cosac Naify, 1999, 342 p. ISBN 85-86374-23-7
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Vitruvius
Catalog
Fundação Bienal de São Paulo
São Paulo, Brazil
2011
Casa Encendida
428 p.
Madrid, Spain
2010
Instituto Cidades Criativas
311 p.
Belo Horizonte, Brazil
2008
Dublin, Ireland
#157
July, 2007
Porto Alegre, Brazil
#7
April, 2006
France
#359
Jul/ Aug,2005
Vianna e Mosley Publishers
232 p.
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2004
aU #96
Editora PINI
Sao Paulo, Brazil
Jun/ Jul, 2001
São Paulo, Brazil
Gráfica #49
Jan-mar/1999
Brazil
#5
May/ Jun, 1996
(Português) At once a fiction and a documentary about a skyscraper that grows indefinitely and eventually eliminates Sao Paulo, The Ultimate Skyscraper (or The Absolute Condominium) departs from an analysis of “SP Maharishi Tower” – the Dravidian-style (!!!) would-be tallest building in the world proposed by the Beatles ex-guru Yogi Maharishi for Sao Paulo in 1999; to then distort and pervert the facts. The book has drawings by Portuguese illustrator Vasco Mourão, and text, research and original sketches by Carlos M Teixeira. In Portuguese only.
Carlos M. Teixeira and Vasco Mourão, O condomínio absoluto. Editora C/Arte, 2009, 256 p. (two tomes). ISBN 9788576540915
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Archdaily
Viana & Mosley Editora
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2012
Harvard Graduate School of Design
#34 Architectures of Latin America
USA
2011
Colegio de Arquitectos del Ecuador Provincial de Pichincha
Quito, Ecuador
November, 2012
A to Z vol. 2
Hong Kong Rihan International Culture
Hong Kong
2010
Paperwork #2
Black Dog Publishing Limited
London, UK
2012
Collateral Spaces was organized by Alexandre Campos, Carlos Teixeira, Renata Marquez and Wellington Cançado. The bilingual edition presents fifteen projects by architects, designers and artists, and argues for an architecture that scapes from the institutional channels that limit contemporary architecture. Collateral Spaces is out of print but is available at the website www.colaterais.org.
CANÇADO, Wellington; MARQUEZ, Renata; CAMPOS, Alexandre; TEIXEIRA, Carlos Moreira (Orgs.). Espaços colaterais. Belo Horizonte, Instituto Cidades Criativas, 2008, 312 p. ISBN 978-85-61659-00-4
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Cidades Criativas
Vitruvius
Document of the College of Architecture USFQ
Quito, Ecuador
March, 2010
LW #18
Seoul, Korea
November, 2008
Verlagshaus Braun
1040 p.
Berlin, Germany
2008
aU #157
Editora PINI
Sao Paulo, Brazil
April, 2007
Cuadernos #8
Cordoba, Argentina
February, 2006
Marsilio Publishers
223 p.
Venice, Italy
2004
ACTAR Publishers
Barcelona, Spain
January, 2003
L’Architecture d’Aujourd’Hui #333
Paris, France
March, 2001
São Paulo, Brazil
#74
Oct/ Nov, 1997
Chile
#83
Jan-mar/1996
(Português) The second book in the “Pensamento da América Latina” collection (by Romano Guerra Editora in Sao Paulo and Nhamerica Platform in Austin) features texts by Carlos Teixeira written between 1999 and 2015 and previously published on Vitruvius, an architecture online journal. This republication is not a simple collection, but an organization that defines a more coherent and articulated narrative to previously isolated texts, giving light to simple themes – social segregation, spatial fragmentation, road urbanism – and unusual ones – the weeds, the void, the reverse, the stilts.
Carlos M Teixeira, Ode to the Void. Nhamerica Platform, Romano Guerra, São Paulo; 2nd ed, 2018. ISBN 978-85-88585-57-7
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d3 Publications
319 p.
New York, USA
2012
Gestalten
288 p.
Berlin, Germany
2012
Friendly Fire #2 – Lorem Ipsum
Fânzeres, Portugal
June, 2012
PiB #11
Totum Editorial
São Paulo, Brazil
Aug/ Sep, 2010
coarquitetura
Casa do Baile
Belo Horizonte, Brazil
2011
AU #205
Editora PINI
Sao Paulo, Brazil
April, 2011
V&A #22
V&A Publishing
London, UK
July, 2010
Futur Magazine, Sociedade Editora, Ltda
#77
Lisbon, Portugal
Jan/ Feb, 2010
Land Niederosterreich
162 p.
St. Polten, Austria
2008
France
#373
Dec/ Jan, 2008
Springer Publishers
407 p.
Vienna, Austria
2007
Cuadernos #6
Cordoba, Argentina
November, 2005
Bienal de São Paulo Foundation
119 p.
Sao Paulo, Brazil
2004
Bikhauser
220 p.
Geneva, Switzerland
2002
Projeto Design #249
ARCOweb
Sao Paulo, Brazil
November, 2000
Projeto Design #241
ARCOweb
Sao Paulo, Brazil
March, 1997
São Paulo, Brazil
#59
Mar-apr/1995
Praxis
Boston (USA)
2013
Boundaries #4 – The Other City
Italy
Apr/ Jun, 2012
Hyundai Card
Korea
August, 2011
The Science Of Apocalypse
Belo Horizonte, Brazil
December, 2012
Entre explores the multidisciplinary approach used by Vazio S/A across a range of areas such as architecture, urban design and landscape design. In Portuguese “entre”, the word for “in-between”, conjures up connotations that far exceed its English equivalent. Indeed the ‘in-between’ explored in this book is a more abstract and farreaching notion: physical, spatial and temporal. By retaining the Portuguese term in this new English edition, Entre signals Vazio S/A’s indebtedness to Brazilian culture and seeks to keep intact this original notion, for which there seems to be no satisfactory English translation.
Entre explores our multidisciplinary approach by featuring a selection of projects from Spiral Booths exhibited in 2010 as part of “Architects Build Small Spaces” at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, through to the installation at the 29th Sao Paulo International Art Biennial,” The Other, the Same”. The projects are vividly conveyed via photographic documentations of the installations as well as structural diagrams and plans and substantiated through a series of contributions by architectural journalists and practitioners, as well as interviews and direct interventions by Carlos Teixeira.
Out of print.
TEIXEIRA, Carlos M. Entre: Architecture from the Performing Arts. Reino Unido: Black Dog Pub Limited, 2012, 380 p. ISBN 978-1-907317-78-1
AR #1366
EMAP Publishing
London, UK
December, 2011
V&A 1:1 #1
V&A Publishing
London, UK
2010
Projeto #360
ARCOweb
São Paulo, Brazil
February, 2010
Vazio S/A
Belo Horizonte, Brazil
2008
Die Gestalten Verlag Publishers
255 p.
Berlin, Germany
2007
AR #1318
London, England
December, 2006
L’Architecture d’Ajourd’Hui #359
Paris, France
Jul/ Aug, 2005
Brazil
#1
June, 2004
Editora Abril
Sao Paulo, Brazil
October, 2001
Brazil
diversos
diversos
aU #70
Editora PINI
Sao Paulo, Brazil
February, 1997
Belo Horizonte, Brazil
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