Publications
SUMMARY
This project (more here) mobilizes Richard Sennett’s “open city” theory to discuss, through the heritage of urban planning in Belo Horizonte and Chicago, the potential of urban and architectural spaces for public use. First, the project presents Chicago’s historical influence on urban planning in Belo Horizonte. It then presents two case studies, first, Edifício Arcângelo Maletta’s (“Maletta”), and secondly, Mercado Novo. The article points to the importance of urban models in the definition of rigid urban forms and spatial segregation and, via ruptures and consistencies observed in the case studies, advances the discussion of strategies to break with this heritage and build new social and spatial paradigms. This project was originally published in Portuguese and presented at two Brazilian academic conferences: Seminario da Historia da Cidade e Urbanismo (Belo Horizonte, 2022) and Arquisur (Porto Alegre, 2022).
ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS (click to open)
English
COLLINS, L.; FREITAS, D. From Closed to Open: Design, Pedagogy and Imagination in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. Unpublished. 2023.
COLLINS, L.; FREITAS, D. Possibilities for the Open City in Maletta: Assumptions for breaking closed cities. In: XL Encontro e XXV Congresso de Escolas e Faculdades Públicas de Arquitetura da América do Sul (ARQUISUR). UFRGS Porto Alegre, 2022.
COLLINS, L.; FREITAS, D. The Open City of Maletta: Using Chicago’s urban planning influence to explore potentials for the rupture of closed cities. In: 17º Seminário da História da Cidade e do Urbanismo (SHCU). UFMG Belo Horizonte, 2022.
Português
COLLINS, L.; FREITAS, D. Potenciais para Cidade Aberta no Maletta: Premissas para Ruptura das Cidades Fechadas. In: XL Encontro e XXV Congresso de Escolas e Faculdades Públicas de Arquitetura da América do Sul (ARQUISUR). UFRGS Porto Alegre, 2022.
COLLINS, L.; FREITAS, D. A Cidade Aberta do Maletta: Da influência do planejamento urbano de Chicago às premissas para ruptura das cidades fechadas. In: 17º Seminário da História da Cidade e do Urbanismo (SHCU). UFMG Belo Horizonte, 2022.
ONLINE PUBLICATIONS (click to open)
Collins, Lydia, “The Everyday Architecture of Carnaval,” Platform Space, February 5, 2024, https://www.platformspace.net/home/the-everyday-architecture-of-carnaval.
ART PUBLICATIONS (click to open)
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The Everyday Architecture of Carnaval