2024-12-22T05:02:36-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/108433337/the-ruins-of-congonhas Orhan Ayyüce 2014-09-08T00:14:00-04:00 >2022-03-16T09:10:02-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/ju/jun366y5yzqq90fj.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>Our world "classic" will not be destroyed by barbarians. He is destroyed by us every day, eroded, imploded, sabotaged. And the aesthetic result is something that is far short of what art history calls "picturesque" .</p></em><br /><br /><p>Powerfully penned by Guilherme Wisnik.&nbsp;Original text is in Portuguese.<br>&nbsp;</p><p><strong>The ruins of Congonhas<br>William Wisnik</strong></p><p>In the foreground of the ground, an uneven and cracked asphalt, taken by waste accumulated adrift, as boxes, bags, newspaper sheets, clothes and debris of fallen walls destroyed themselves just ahead.&nbsp;Then a sequence of columns lined concrete, even without horizontal beams or cradles that unite.&nbsp;Behind them, a shapeless mass of structures (mainly buildings) and fairly diverse in terms of their heights, but uniform in appearance plastic, forming a kind of wall to the second stage.&nbsp;And finally, above all, a very dirty white sky, which does not seem to offer redemption to the feelings of melancholy and abandonment that dominate the picture.&nbsp;Incidentally, everything is scratched and grimy image, feeling is intensified by granulation something dreamlike this series of black and white Mauro Restiffe made in the city of S&atilde;o Paulo.</p><p>The scene is located in Vila Congonhas, in the vicinity...</p>