Architect, designer and founder of Studio Bergamin and Paradiso Vintage, São Paulo
Alessandro Bergamin is an architect and designer with 26 years of experience who now curates two shops in São Paulo. Studio Bergamin, in Jardins, is approaching its 17th anniversary, and Paradiso Vintage fills a warehouse in Santa Cecília. His eye is drawn to Italian pieces, his own roots, and to anything that carries the marks of time.
From Alessandro’s own stories, with the addresses as published.
The museum was founded in 1947 and its suspended building on Avenida Paulista, designed by Lina Bo Bardi, was inaugurated in 1968. A single ticket covers both of its buildings.
Founded in 1905, it is the oldest art museum in the city and focuses on Brazilian art from the 19th century to today. The Pina Luz building was renovated in the late 1990s to a project by architect Paulo Mendes da Rocha.
The Brazilian Museum of Sculpture and Ecology stands on land granted by the city in 1986. The building is by Paulo Mendes da Rocha and the garden by Roberto Burle Marx.
Completed in 1951, the Glass House was the first project Lina Bo Bardi saw built. She and her husband Pietro Maria Bardi lived there for decades, and it is now the seat of the Instituto Bardi. Visits are guided and booked in advance.
The Instituto Moreira Salles opened this building on 20 September 2017, designed by Andrade Morettin Arquitetos. It houses exhibition spaces, a cinema-theater, a photography library, a bookshop and the Balaio café-restaurant.
The museum occupies the historic Estação da Luz and first opened in 2006. It reopened in July 2021 after the 2015 fire and the reconstruction that followed.
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