Statement by architect Sylvio Sawaya about his works, about Architecture

Abstract

This statement is part of a research under development about the architect Sylvio Barros Sawaya. Here, the architect comments some of his works and through them, we shall realize his way of understanding architecture, his designing and building procedures, influence he had of great masters of Paulista Architecture, his research on alternative materials applied to the building and its discovery of an architecture made with popular elements and forms, which transformed his vision and projects. It is understood that the architect can be seen as countercultural, producing sometimes an alternative architecture concerning prevailing building systems and even in relation to the understanding of what the project is.