Brazilian design exhibition Aberto is hosting its fifth edition in Casa Bola, architect Eduardo Longo’s globular self-built 1970s São Paulo home.
Aberto/05 is the fifth iteration of the platform’s art and design show, which has been staged in a range of modernist buildings, including Le Corbusier’s Maison La Roche in Paris.
Aberto is hosting its fifth edition in Eduardo Longo’s 1979-designed Casa Bola
This year, the exhibition features installations, sculpture and painting by 50 creatives housed within the 1979 Casa Bola, which demonstrated Longo ‘s utopian architectural vision for an urban community, where residents would live in pods suspended above the street.
The building stands out on São Paulo’s bustling Faria Lima for its spherical ferrocement facade, positioned above three floors of separate gallery-style subterranean spaces that still serve as Longo’s home and office today.…