Wherever You Find People
The Radical Schools of Oscar Niemeyer, Darcy Ribeiro, and Leonel Brizola
9783038600268
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Wherever You Find People
The Radical Schools of Oscar Niemeyer, Darcy Ribeiro, and Leonel Brizola
Wherever There Is People tells the unusual story of the Integrated Centres of Public Education (CIEP), a radical but relatively unstudied public architecture initiative in Rio de Janeiro in 1982. Conceived by the world-renowned architect Oscar Niemeyer, the intellectual and politican Darcy Ribeiro, and state governor Leonel Brizola, the program addressed the massive urban migration that Rio de Janeiro was experiencing at that time, which spurred demand for new schools. As a result of the experimental program, over five hundred CIEP schools were built using a standardized system of simple concrete parts.
Based upon extensive interviews with key people associated with the project past and present, including Architect Jair Valera, Niemeyer’s primary collaborator, and Claudia Costin, the Rio city secretary of education, Wherever There Is People tells the story of this unprecedented project. Alongside candid conversations, the book features never-before-seen photography and drawings, as well as essays that examine the CIEP’s story as a guide to how architecture can embrace the constraints and conditions of the modern world. The result is a vivid documentary of a unique but relatively unknown piece of socially driven public architecture, with valuable lessons for the future.
Based upon extensive interviews with key people associated with the project past and present, including Architect Jair Valera, Niemeyer’s primary collaborator, and Claudia Costin, the Rio city secretary of education, Wherever There Is People tells the story of this unprecedented project. Alongside candid conversations, the book features never-before-seen photography and drawings, as well as essays that examine the CIEP’s story as a guide to how architecture can embrace the constraints and conditions of the modern world. The result is a vivid documentary of a unique but relatively unknown piece of socially driven public architecture, with valuable lessons for the future.
176 pages | 25 color plates, 45 halftones | 6 1/2 x 9 1/2 | © 2016
Architecture: Architecture--Criticism
Table of Contents
Chapter 1
In the Rear-View Mirror
Foreword, Vicky Richardson
Animating Education, Aberrant Architecture
Schools That Are (like) Wings, Ligia Nobre
Learning By Numbers: Map of CIEPs
Why Build Public Schools? Shumi Bose
Inventing Other Stories: A Conversation with Aberrant Architecture
Chapter 2
Fazimentos: Those Who Did
Leonel Brizola, The State Governor
Carmen Rangel & Laurinda Barbosa, The Coordinators
Chapter 3
A Fabric Of Schools
Oscar Niemeyer, The Architect
Washington Fajardo, The Urban Planner
Ricardo Henriques, The Economist
Carlos Niemeyer, The Archivist
Lauro Cavalcanti, The Curator
Chapter 4
The Equation To Be Solved
José Carlos Süssekind, The Engineer
Jair Valera, The Architect
Chapter 5
The Pedagogical Adventure
Darcy Ribeiro, The Anthropologist
Chapter 6
The School is Yours
Carmen Barretto, The Teacher
Renata Carneiro, The Director
Leonardo Peixoto & Silvestre, The Teacher & The Social Parent
Chapter 7
The CIEP is The Channel
Lenita Vilela, The Director
Carlos Eduardo, The Policeman
Chapter 8
This Idea, It’s Magic
Claudia Costin & Rafael Parente, The Politicians
Can Good Architecture Be One-Size-Fits-All?
Alastair Donald, Aberrant Architecture
Always More To Learn, Aberrant Architecture
Postscript, Beatrice Galilee
Acknowledgements
In the Rear-View Mirror
Foreword, Vicky Richardson
Animating Education, Aberrant Architecture
Schools That Are (like) Wings, Ligia Nobre
Learning By Numbers: Map of CIEPs
Why Build Public Schools? Shumi Bose
Inventing Other Stories: A Conversation with Aberrant Architecture
Chapter 2
Fazimentos: Those Who Did
Leonel Brizola, The State Governor
Carmen Rangel & Laurinda Barbosa, The Coordinators
Chapter 3
A Fabric Of Schools
Oscar Niemeyer, The Architect
Washington Fajardo, The Urban Planner
Ricardo Henriques, The Economist
Carlos Niemeyer, The Archivist
Lauro Cavalcanti, The Curator
Chapter 4
The Equation To Be Solved
José Carlos Süssekind, The Engineer
Jair Valera, The Architect
Chapter 5
The Pedagogical Adventure
Darcy Ribeiro, The Anthropologist
Chapter 6
The School is Yours
Carmen Barretto, The Teacher
Renata Carneiro, The Director
Leonardo Peixoto & Silvestre, The Teacher & The Social Parent
Chapter 7
The CIEP is The Channel
Lenita Vilela, The Director
Carlos Eduardo, The Policeman
Chapter 8
This Idea, It’s Magic
Claudia Costin & Rafael Parente, The Politicians
Can Good Architecture Be One-Size-Fits-All?
Alastair Donald, Aberrant Architecture
Always More To Learn, Aberrant Architecture
Postscript, Beatrice Galilee
Acknowledgements