2011 » Brazil » Architecture Section

Teatro Oficina + Universidade Popular + Oficina de Floresta + Teatro de Estádio (Teatro Oficina + Popular University + Forest Workshop + Stadium Theatre)

The exhibition looks at a social and cultural performance by the Oficina Uzyna-Uzona theatre group, headed by José Celso Martinez Corrêa, who views culture and education as a form of human development and a way of integrating people into the city’s social life. The exhibition project will look at two important architectural designs in the group’s history: – The first, designed by Lina Bo Bardi and Edson Elito in 1989 and concluded in 1995, transformed the theatre into a street with glass walls and a movable ceiling. – The second project, created by the architect João Batista Martinez Corrêa in 2004 and as yet unfinished, aims to fulfil the ambitions of the director, who has baptized it Oficina Theatre + Popular University + Forest Workshop + Stadium Theatre. The design transforms the urban space and becomes part of the life of its inhabitants. In 2010, this architectural project became a listed building by the National Institute of Historic and Artistic Patrimony (IPHAN). The project for transforming the architecture, landscape and urban design of the areas surrounding the Teatro Oficina includes a Stadium Theatre with a high-tech curved retractable roof, as well as a university conceived in organically shaped layers and paths that revive the neighbourhood’s lost integration between the community and the urban landscape.

Exhibiting artists / ateliers

• Edson Jorge Elito

Sao Paulo
Education: Architecture degree, Mackensie University (1971)
Teaching activities: Architecture and urbanism, Braz Cubas University, Mogi das Cruzes (1996-2004)
Awards: Cena "Hábitat Social y Desarrollo" (za rozvoj veřejných prostor) na XVII Bienal Panamericana de Arquitectura de Quito (Ekvádor)
Additional information: Born in 1948 in Sao Paulo. Professor at Braz Cubas University, Architecture and Urban Project College.

Exhibiting works

• Lina Bo Bardi and Edson Elito: Teatro Oficina (Theatre Oficina), ; Identification of exhibit: sketch, photo, video
• João Batista Martinez Corrêa

* 24.06.1942, Araraquara, São Paulo, Brazil
Education: Architecture degree, Mackensie University
Teaching activities: Lectures at FAUSP, FGV, FAAP (1997); lecture on the architecture of Baghdad's subway stations (1987)
Participation in other important exhibitions: 4th International Biennale of Architecture (São Paulo, 2000); Contemporary Brazilian Architectural Production – Copacabana Underground Station, AA Architectural Association School, London (1998); 3rd Biennale of Architecture of São Paulo (1997)
Awards: International award for the “Mosul Ceremonial Festival Grounds”, Iraq Government, Mosul, Iraq, 2nd Place, collaborating architect (1981)


Exhibiting works

• João Batista Martinez Corrêa and Beatriz Pimenta Corrêa: Teatro Oficina + Universidade Popular + Oficina de Floresta + Teatro de Estádio (Teatro Oficina + Popular University + Forest Workshop + Stadium Theatre), Sandra Morikawa and Diogo Cortes Luz ; Identification of exhibit: sketch, photo, video, poster, others