(There were people, I promise...)On Friday Magnhild and I went to Centro Cultural, a public gallery, theatre and library designed by Mario Chamie in 1984. It was a great example of a municipal building that really works, with every function being used; the library was busy, the gallery had a constant flow of people, there was a big queue into the music hall as we left. Most impressive though was that it felt like a space where people could just be- sat in the cafe playing guitar, sat on benches surrounding the green open area- a social space, not an inaccessible place of high arts.
It is interesting to compare this with the Bienal pavillion. Ivo Mesquita and Ana Paula Cohen's proposal for the space is centred around the library function of the third floor's 'plan of readings' and the open square of the ground floor as a space for interaction and performance. I wonder if Centro Cultural is the kind of space they had it mind?
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