Owner
Carlos M Teixeira
Employees
4 Established
2002 Specialities
Architecture
Urban Design
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Vila del Rey House, Nova Lima,
Brazil, 2001
(Foto: Jomar Bragança) |
Topographical Amnesias II, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, 2005
(Foto: Eduardo Eckenfels) |
Aalborg Acqua Centre, Aaborg, Denmark, 2002
(Foto: Vazio S/A) |
 Philosophy
Besides commissions of commercial nature, Vazio S/A searches an active position in which the city and its problems are seen as triggers of new projects – programming actions in urban voids, designing architectural interventions in mining areas, conceiving urban events with artists and, more recently, acting as designer and developer of residential buildings at once. A vision in which multidisciplinarity, informality, the market and the urban environment are seen as something that could points us towards new solutions and opportunities.
Current projects
2009-2010
Spiral Booths, Victoria & Albert Museum
Installation for the V&A Museum 2010 Summer Exhibition
2008-2010
285 Montevideo, Residential building designed and developed by Vazio S/A, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
2008-2013
2014 World Cup BH Stadium (with BCMF Architects)
Concept landscape design of the renovation of Mineirão - the football stadium of Belo Horizonte, one of the host cities of the 2014 World Cup, Belo Horizonte, Brazil. Comissioned by GPA&A
2007-2009
Architectural Grafts – a garden of prosthetic devices, Nova Lima, Brazil
2007-2009
H3O – Urban Upgrading of Favela da Serra, a 50.000 inhabitant informal settlement, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Competitions
2008 Private Plots (Austria), Third Place
2007 Tangshan Memorial Competition (China), Third Place
2006 Shinkenshiku Residential Competition (Japan), Honorable Mention
2003 Europan 7 – Izola (Slovenia), Finalist
2001 E-2: Defining the Urban Condition (Paris) – First Place
2001 FEIDAD: Digital Architecture Award - Finalist
1999 Downtown São Paulo Urban Upgrading, Fourth Place
1999 Carandiru Park (São Paulo), Honorable Mention
Publications
Recent International Magazines
Landscape World vol. 20 (Korea) , 2008
The Japan Architect no. 64 (Japan), 2007
The Architectural Review no. 1318 (England), 2006
L’Architecture d’Ajourd’Hui no. 359 (France), 2005
Cuardernos Latinoamericanos de Arquitectura no. 6 (Argentina), 2005
Selected Books
Best Private Plots – Exhibition Catalogue (Land Niederosterreich, Austria), 2008
1000 X Architecture of the Americas (Verlaghaus, Germany), 2008
Collateral Spaces (Cidades Criativas, Brazil), 2008
Space Craft – Fleeting Architecture and Hideouts (Die Gestalten, Germany), 2007
Uropean Urbanity (Springer Publishers, Austria), 2006
Metamorph - IX International Architectural Exhibition (Marsilio, Italy), 2004
IX Venice Bienalle Catalogue
Jovens Arquitetos / Young Architects (Viana & Mosley, Brazil), 2003
A panel of built works by under-40 Brazilian architects
e2: Defining the Urban Condition – Competition/Exhibition Catalogue (ACTAR, Barcelona + e-2, Paris), 2003
History of the Void in Belo Horizonte – Book by the author (CosacNaify, Brazil), 1999
A long photographic/written essay on the city and its voids, its informality, its potentials
Recent Lectures
2009 Universidad San Francisco de Quito (Equator)
2009 Taubman School, Ann Arbor University (MI)
2008 Royal Institute of British Architects, Architectural Association, London Metropolitan University,
East London University, (England)
2007 Colegio de Arquitectos de Madrid (Spain)
2006 Architecture Seminar, Café com Letras, Belo Horizonte (Brazil)
2005 ETSAG, Universidad de Alcalá de Henares (Spain)
2005 Hipótesis de Paisage 5 seminar, School of Architecture at Catholic University in Cordoba (Argentina)
2005 Colégio de Arquitectos de Cataluña, Barcelona (Spain)
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