r/ModernistArchitecture

(Last pic is just an example of what this architecture, the so-called «Khrushchovka», looks like.)

The first design for CRUSP emerged in 1963, when several architects participated in the bidding process. The winner was Eduardo Kneese, a contemporary architect who designed the entire complex using precast concrete. The buildings were intended to house athletes for the 1963 Pan American Games and would later become student housing.

CRUSP's history is also very interesting. It wasn't originally designed to house USP students, and when the Pan american games ended, the buildings sat idle and completely unused. However, during the Brazilian dictatorship in 1964, twelve students, alongside Rafael Kauan, occupied the 5th and 6th floors of Building A (twelve students across twelve blocks), demonstrating that it's often the minority that makes the difference.

CRUSP exists today because a handful of students initiated that struggle.

(I got part of these sources from retomada do crusp wordpress.)

Today, CRUSP is intended for low-income USP students and those who live far from the university or even in another Brazilian state besides São Paulo.

From Collection of Chicago Museum of Art and a historical photo of a secretary using the chair with the desk designed for it. 1938 (I believe)

Uncredited photos, via Pierluigi Serraino

1. One Campus Martius Lobby
2. Hudson's Detroit Lobby
3. Rennaiscance Center Riverfront Solarium
4. Rennaiscance Center Lobby
5. Cobo Hall Lobby
6. Cobo Hall Entrance (Joe Louis Statue)

Villa K2 built initially for the Cattaneo family in 1953 by Carlo Mollino. A beautiful symbiosis of vernacular techtonics and the use of concrete, with the usual refined details of Mollino.

The project design began in 1952 when Luigi Cattaneo, a milanese entrepreneur, commissioned Mollino with this weekend home.

Just to give some context, Mollino already had shown the capacity of merging concrete with traditional materials and techtonics already in 1947 when he designed the Casa del Sole hotel in Cervinia (Valle d’Aosta), which was finalized in 1955. Still in Valle d’Aosta he takes on the more famous project of the Rascard Garelli, a project that kept him busy from 1962 till 1965. In that case he moved an existing Rascard (traditional Valser like, Strichbau construction) from a neighboring valley into Champoluc. The reassembly of the building was done with also a new plinth element with both stone and concrete materials. This to say that his work (also) revolved around traditional techtonics and new materials.