ARCH 201 Spring 2008

Sao Paolo, Brazil: Urban Food Studio

The objectives of the São Paulo Studio are: 1) to analyze and understand the forces that created the São Paulo megalopolis; 2) to contribute ideas to São Paulo’s latest reform efforts and participate in the awakened interest in ecological issues and the relationship between nature, topography , the city and its people; 3) to visit some of Brazil’s Modernist masterpieces and 4) to re-enforce the links between the architecture department at U.C. Berkeley and the University of São Paulo , Mckenzie University in Rio and peoples of the Americas.