Guto Requena
Guto Requena is a Brazilian architect and designer (Sorocaba, Brazil, November 27, 1979) graduated in Architecture & Urbanism from the São Carlos Engineering School, a faculty of the University of São Paulo in 1999. [1]
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Alma mater | University of São Paulo |
Occupation | Architect |
Practice | Estudio Guto Requena |
Career
Guto Requena is the Creative Director of the Estudio Guto Requena which acts in all areas where design is of the essence, in its most varied scales: objects, interiors, architecture and cities.
He founded Estudio Guto Requena in 2008 and has ever since acted as a design consultant, writer and professor in addition to developing interior architecture, interactive installations and product design.
Academics
Requena is representative of a new generation of architects and designers involved in the discussion of interactivity and its effects on architecture and design; his work focuses in new digital technologies, cyberculture, hybrid realities, new lifestyles, affective memory and Brazilian culture.[2]
His interest in this field led him to work during nine years as an integrant of the research group “NOMADS.usp – Center of Interactive Living Studies of the University of São Paulo”, which in its turn led him to a master's degree at the University of São Paulo and respective dissertation Hybrid Habitation: Interactivity and Experience in the Cyberculture Era (2007).[3]
He taught project design at Panamericana – School of Arts and Design – and at IED – European Institute of Design, in São Paulo – at both graduation and master levels.
Awards
- ArchDaily's Building of the Year Award 2014 - Interior Architecture - Walmart São Paulo.[4]
- BID 2012 – Bienal Ibero Americana de Design, as the best Space Design in Brazil for the Exhibition "Roteiro Musical de São Paulo".[5]
- “Best in Architecture Brazil - 2010” for nightclub HOT HOT, under category “Bars & Nightclubs”.[6][7]
- “Young Brazilian Awards” as recognition for lecturing on 70 workshops all over the country.
Media
Since 2012 Guto has a design column at newspaper Folha de S.Paulo where he writes about design, architecture and urbanism.[8]
His academic achievements and activity as a teacher in reputed design schools made him a national reference in the subject of contemporary architecture and design in the specialized media. He is creator, screenwriter and host of a show on design in cable/satellite Brazilian television channel GNT called Nos Trinques; its first season aired from March to December in 2011. [9]
In 2012 and 2013 Guto developed design web series for the same channel, recorded in Milan, Paris, Amsterdam and London(www.youtube.com/gutorequena).
Selected projects
Some of his best-known works are the São Paulo nightclub Hot Hot (2009),[10] the collection of vases “Once Upon a Time",[11] the "Samba Collection",[12] the 3D printed "Noize Chair",[13] the exhibition Musical Tour of São Paulo,[14] the interactive space for “Agência D3” (2011),[15] and the Walmart.com Brazilian headquarters.[16]
In 2012 Guto was selected by Google to develop the project for their Brazilian headquarter in São Paulo.[17][18]
Exhibitions
Guto exhibited at:
2014
- Beijing Design Week - Beijing, China;
- Guild Design Fair - Cape Town, South Africa;
- Design Days Dubai - Dubai, United Arab Emirates;
- Laufen - Impressões, at Expo Revestir - São Paulo, Brazil;
- Losing My America - At Cappellini, during Milan Design Week - Milan, Italy;
- From Tradition to 3D Printing , at Carlton Hotel Baglioni during Milan Design Week - Milan, Italy;
2013
- Design Days Dubai with Coletivo Amor de Madre Gallery – Dubai, United Arab Emirates;
- Cabinets of Curiosity at Mint Shop during London Design Festival – London, England;
- Museu da Casa Brasileira, BID – Bienal Iberoamericana de Diseño - São Paulo, Brazil;
- Spazio Rossana Orlandi during Milan Design Fair – Milan, Italy;
- SPDW - São Paulo Design Weekend at CCCC Exhibition, Galeria Ovo – São Paulo, Brazil;
- IBDF – International Business Design Fair, with Coletivo Amor de Madre Gallery - Mexico City, Mexico;
- Inventory Series 04: Time, during Design Miami - Miami, USA;
2012
- Brazil S/A during Milan Design Fair – Milan, Italy;
- fuiparaspelembreidevc, Galeria Coletivo Amor de Madre - São Paulo, Brazil;
- SPDW - São Paulo Design Weekend at Casa Juici + Phosphorus - São Paulo, Brazil;
- BID – Bienal Iberoamericana de Diseño - Madrid, Spain;
- Brazil Bienal of Design - Belo Horizonte, Brazil;
- Inventory Series 03: Experience of a City, during Design Miami – Miami, United States;
Product design
- NOIZE CHAIR – A 3D printed chair created by the mix of soundscapes collected in the streets of São Paulo Downtown with Giraffe Chair from Lina Bo Bardi;[19]
- NOIZE LIVE – Performance during São Paulo Design Week where Noize Chair process were open to the audience to create live their own unique mini-noize Chair 3D printed.[20]
- LOVE PROJECT – Sensors collects emotions in live narratives of Love Stories and uses this data as parametric input to generate 3D printed daily objects.[21]
- ONCE UPON A TIME COLLECTION – Guto's grandmother retold him his old fables from childhood. The narrative drama into her voice was analyzed as data input for the parametric interface to generate the molds of Glassblowed vases.[22]
- TEA HUG - A tapestry created for Tai Ping developed using an old painting of the first colony of Chinese immigrants in Brazil with its color filled by parametric use of Chinese song[23]
- PARAMETRIC DES-APARECIDA – A wood Brazilian Saint unifies crafts and parametric techniques[24]
- Noize Chair
- Nossa Senhora des-Aparecida
- Bubble Chair
- Samba Collection
- Once Upon a Time
- Alma Collection
- Tea Hug for Tai Ping
- Love Project
- Love Project Experiment 2
- Tuiteratura
- Play Collection
- Noize live
References
- Guto Requena. "NOMADS.usp". "Hybrid habitation: interactivity and experience in the cyberculture era". Retrieved 29 January 2014.
- Henry, Christopher. "Mostra Black". What turns a residential space into a home?. ArchDaily. Retrieved 29 January 2014.
- Abolafio, Beto. "Habitar Híbrido". Para ele, o morar é híbrido. O Estado de S. Paulo - Estadão. Retrieved 9 January 2012.
- "Building of the Year 2014 - Walmart São Paulo". ArchDaily. Retrieved 3 February 2014.
- "Premiados BID12: Brasil | Bienal Iberoamericana de Diseño". Archived from the original on 30 January 2014. Retrieved 30 January 2014.
- ""Best in Architecture Brazil - 2010" | nightclub HOT HOT, under category "Bars & Nightclubs". Retrieved 30 January 2014.
- VGV, Portal. "Prize". Prêmio "O melhor da arquitetura" divulga seus vencedores. FGV. Retrieved 9 January 2012.
- Guto Requena. "Guto Requena - Colunistas - Folha de S.Paulo".
- Zoldan, Guilherme. "Nos Trinques". Nos Trinques. Vitruvius. Retrieved 9 January 2012.
- França, Valéria. "Hot Hot". "O arquiteto que esquentou o design nacional". O Estado de S. Paulo - Estadão. Retrieved 9 January 2012.
- "chairs made from noise: noize chair by estudio guto requena". Designboom. Retrieved 1 August 2014.
- "Uma melodia que se vê". Casa Vogue. Retrieved 1 August 2014.
- "Nóize chairs by Estudio Guto Requena". Dezeen. Retrieved 1 August 2014.
- "Roteiro Musical de Sao Paulo / Estudio Guto Requena + Atelier Marko Brajovic". Archdaily. Retrieved 1 August 2014.
- Gutiérrez, Catalina. "Agência D3". Espacio Interactivo D3. Plataforma Arquitectura. Retrieved 9 January 2012.
- "Walmart Sao Paulo / Estudio Guto Requena". ArchDaily. Retrieved 1 August 2014.
- NETO, ALCINO LEITE. "Arquiteto paulista projeta escritório da Google em SP". Folha de S.Paulo. Retrieved 30 January 2014.
- Seifert, Tim. "Guto Requena, Architect and Designer, Apartment, Sao Paulo". Freunde von Freunden. Retrieved 30 January 2014.
- http://www.dezeen.com/2012/07/13/noize-chairs-by-estudio-guto-requena/
- http://www.fastcolabs.com/3017011/brazilian-designers-merge-sound-files-and-3-d- printers-to-create-real-time-distorted-noize-c
- http://www.designboom.com/design/love-project-estudio-guto-requena-3d-printed- household-items-09-01-2014/
- http://www.designboom.com/design/estudio-guto-requena-at-sao-paulo-design- weekend/
- http://design-milk.com/geometric-tea-hug-rug-estudio-guto-requena-tai-ping/
- http://www.domusweb.it/en/design/2014/05/23/gt2p_losing_my_america.html