Archive for November, 2008

Urban Age conference São Paulo

3-5 December. All seats for the event are already occupied, but a bundle of essays can  be downloaded from the website. The winner of the award will be announced 3 December. The event www.urban-age.net Download the ‘south america newspaper’ www.urban-age.net/0_downloads/SouthAmerica_Newspaper_eng.pdf

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Project map

I added a summary of projects I have worked on in Brazil to Google Maps. Click the “merten´s projects in brazil” button on the right, or click here.

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Espaços colaterais

Lançamento do livro Espaços Colaterais, organizado por Alexandre Campos, Wellington Cançado, Renata Marquez e Carlos Teixeira. Livraria Cultura do Conjunto Nacional, São Paulo. Hoje, 28 de Novembro, às 19h. www.vazio.com.br

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BR-3

The margins of the Tietê river are probably among the darkest and most deserted spaces of São Paulo. Trapped between 16 lanes of the Marginal expressway and a the highly polluted water, and mostly shaped as a cast concrete gutter, the Tietê riverbanks are no place to stay. Exept for a few months in the [...]

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