The Invisible Side Green and the Centro Cultural São Paulo Building

Abstract

The article identifies relations between the design of the Centro Cultural São Paulo (1975-1982) by Eurico Prado Lopes and Luiz Telles, with a new sensibility that emerges from the sixties onwards, driven by criticism of the consumer society, the energy crisis of seventies and the growing ecological awareness. From the identification of these relationships, theoretical and disciplinary propositions by Vittorio Gregotti, Kenneth Frampton and Stan Allen are summoned and discussed as markers of changes in design concepts and postures that progressively incorporate environmental concerns and sustainability issues. Some projects that demonstrate the parallelism of this ecological awareness in Brazil and abroad are selected and the multiple faces of its expression in contemporary architecture are analyzed.