São Paulo, the largest city in Brazil and South America, spawns a unique form of graffiti: Pixação Pixação, distinguished for its simple and angular lines is covering buildings high and low throughout São Paulo. Although this phenomenon is fiercely unpopular in Brazil, in Paris the director of the Cartier Foundation has called ‘Pixo writers’ to [...]

Posted by Cluster, written by Nadia Somekh and Carlos Leite By comparing São Paulo’s realities with international examples of urban regeneration, Nadia Somekh and Carlos Leite explore the constraints and opportunities to deliver high quality design in the city’s major urban projects. When it comes to the realisation of major urban interventions, São Paulo is [...]