Interview Paulo Mendes da Rocha: "Any project is a discourse first of all"

Abstract

Opening the dossier “America Civilization”, which sought multiple approaches (from the graphic reading of the territory, design and project to the historical, theoretical and conceptual approach) to investigate the meanings that this point of view has in the constitution of the graduate courses at Escola da Cidade, Alexandre Benoit, Fernando Viégas, José Paulo Gouvêa and Marianna B. Al Assal interview Paulo Mendes da Rocha, an architect whose reflections are at the heart of this course project. The Architect talks about teaching architecture, learning from the city and visions of the landscape of the Americas.