Description
ARCHITECTONIC TOUR
Duration: 6 hours
This tour focuses on contemporary and modern architecture, highlighting the famous Octavio Frias Bridge (suspended Bridge), the building of the University of Architecture & Urbanism of São Paulo and the Morumbi Stadium (both made by Villanova Artigas). It then follows to the Ibirapuera Park, in order to visit the Oca, the Ciccillo Matarazzo Pavilion, (both made by Oscar Niemeyer), the Modern Art Museum (Lina Bo Bardi), and the Unique Hotel which was designed by architect Ruy Othake. It continues to the Higienópolis neighborhood, (birthplace of modern architecture in the city), to see the works of award-winning architects such as Paulo Mendes da Rocha, Isay Weinfeld, Carlos Bratke and Franz Heep. It also visits the Copan Building, Brazil’s largest building in concrete.
Technical stops of the architectonic tour: Higienópolis, University of Architecture and Urbanism of Sao Paulo (USP), Ibirapuera Park and Copan building
