Infinite Span - 90 Years of Brazilian Architecture

SERAPIAO / WISINK; Gorelik Adrián (Text by); Jean-Louis Cohen (Text by); Ana Luiza Nobre (Text by)

In architecture, a span is something to be conquered, a challenge to be overcome. But span, or v o in Portuguese, also means a project or an action that ends in failure: something that was done in vain. In Brazil, modernization was touted as a leap over the country's history, cast as "backwardness," and...