Urban poliphony (eBook)

The architect and urbanist Adriana Levisky is graduated at FAU-USP and has a Master's degree from FFLCH-USP. She is senior principal at Levisky Architects | Urban Strategy, an architectural projects office, mainly for institutional customers in the fields of education, health and culture, urban projects, and strategic consultancy. Inspired in a vision that unites creativity and innovation, since 2003 the office has been developing solutions and actions that go from urban and building issues, to development and approval of complex facilities, as well as feasibility of conversations and frameworks in public-private partnerships. Levisky Architects office has a portfolio that pictures more than 15 million square meters of projects and consultancy developments, such as Diversity Boulevard, Albert Einstein hospital expansion plan, open museum Crater of Colônia, reurbanization of Jardim Colombo, sports gym and urban plan of Santa Cruz school, Senac São Miguel Paulista, requalification of City Caxingui, Victor Civita square, and master requalification plan of Jockey Clube São Paulo. Throughout her professional life, Adriana has taught architectural projects and urban design at the colleges Braz Cubas, Uniban, and Modulo. She also taught hospital master plans and regulatory procedures in post graduate studies at the Albert Einstein Institute of Education and Research. In her institutional activity, Adriana is a member of the Deliberative Council of the Regional Association of Architecture Offices of São Paulo (AsBEA-SP), where she serves as a member of the Committee on Buildings and Land Use (CEUSO). She is also member of the Brazilian Council for Sustainable Construction (CBCS) and representative member of Fecomercio-SP at the Technical Chamber of Urban Legislation (CTLU).

Editor's note
Acknowledgments
Foreword: A trained ear for the voices of the city
Author's words
Introduction
Part 1 The Architect and Urban Planner and the Political Sphere
Chapter 1 The strategic posture of the architect and urban planner
1.1 Victor Civita Square: the process creates the continuance of enterprise relationships
1.2 Urban master plan for the expansion project of Albert Einstein Hospital - Morumbi Complex
Part 2 Projects, Possibilities, and Dialogues
Chapter 2 The culture and the unveiling of values: the space as a translation of culture
2.1 Where are the urban projects?
2.2 Architecture as a cultural consumption value and as a translation of cultural aspects: views and proposals of "living museums"
2.3 Investigations from urban projects: culture and city close together
Chapter 3 Urban sustainability: creating bonds and civic awareness
3.1 Acknowledging Jardim Colombo neighborhood
3.2 The intervention project and the bond acknowledgment
3.3 The relationships between the built environment and empty spaces
Chapter 4 Micro- and macroscale: everything together and at the same time
4.1 The project and its scales
4.2 A vital solution for macro and micro drainage in cities
Chapter 5 Urban project and its interlocutors
5.1 Territory analysis and construction
5.2 Relationships and interlocutions on decisions for land subdivision
5.3 Other interlocutions: the essential dialogue with social work
Chapter 6 The project as a mediation tool: the community benefits, cooperation, and other agreements
6.1 City Caxingui Neighborhood Experience
Chapter 7 The institutional building to qualify urban spaces: the decision to elaborate projects of private infrastructure
7.1 About hospitals
7.2 About schools
7.3 About museums
Part 3 Legislation and Opportunities
Chapter 8 The architect and urban planner and the familiarity with the urban and building legislation
8.1 Brazil and the legislative maze that surrounds and regulates the architecture and urbanism
8.2 Professional activity and legislation
Chapter 9 Authorship and technical responsibility
Chapter 10 Convergence between public and private spheres
10.1 The perspective of improvement on urban public-private actions
10.2 Concessions and Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs): differences and similarities
10.3 Urban Intervention Projects (UIPs): other modality of public-private actions
10.4 Cooperation agreements
Projects that stayed on the drawing board
Courses of action and challenges
Afterword: Urban polyphony and collective interest
References
Technical data
Collaborators of Levisky Arquitetos firm
About the author
Image credits