OPENINGS 1/4. Marta Moreira. Public Lecture

Public Lectures
OPENINGS
Curated by Enrique Walker

Marta Moreira MMBB, São Paulo

“Conviviality”

Followed by a conversation with Enrique Walker

Thursday 18 September 2025 6:30 pm

Accademia di architettura USI, Mendrisio
Palazzo Canavée, aula magna

Marta Moreira graduated in 1987 from the Faculty of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of São Paulo (FAU/USP). Since 2001, she has been a lecturer in the Design Department at Escola da Cidade – São Paulo School of Architecture, where she has also been a member of the Board since 2008.
In 1991, she founded the MMBB Architects studio in São Paulo together with her partners.
From 1995 to 2021, she collaborated regularly with architect Paulo Mendes da Rocha.

Openings is a series of keynote lectures organized by architecture critic Enrique Walker and hosted at the beginning of each semester at the Accademia di architettura in Mendrisio, from September 2025 to February 2027. It brings together four architecture practices, which are invited to revisit certain of their projects, and stage a conversation on their work and architecture culture at large. The series focuses in particular on the concepts that followed the design of a project; on the arguments that derived from, were triggered by, or potentially outlived the making of a building. In other words, it examines architecture in hindsight, by virtue of storytelling, to point to those moments that might have instigated a finding, a definition, an opening.

The Lecture is streamed live on www.arc.usi.ch