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For the first time translated in English, this book disclosures a must-read intense and provocative thinker in contemporary times. Designed Future is a journey through the modern era: our life in cities, the Americas, new territories and the old continent, of vision and design as essential tools for building the future. As the most complete collection of essays, interviews and lectures, this book is an in-depth view of the journey and particular thinking of one of the most relevant living architects, the Brazilian modern master, Paulo Mendes da Rocha (1928). AUTHOR: Paulo Mendes da Rocha b. 1928), architect. Considered one of the most talen¬ted contemporary architects, Paulo Mendes da Rocha is a major name in the Paulista School, alongside Vilanova Artigas. His work is an endless search for modernity, to ""untie the schizophrenic knot in the division between architecture and city, art and technique, art and science"". He was awarded with the Pritzker Prize (2006), Praemium Imperiale of Japan (2016), Golden Lion by the Venice Architecture Biennale (2016), RIBA Royal Gold Medal (2017). 41 photographs

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