Slab Monument

Paulo Archias Mendes da Rocha was an architect, urban planner and professor. He was a representative of Escola Paulista, in projects such as the Brazilian Museum of Sculpture (MuBE) and the renovation plan for the Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo (Pesp - São Paulo State Pinacotheca). With publication of the book by Paulo Mendes Da Rocha: Bauten Und Projekte (2001) in Europe, by the publisher Niggli Verlag, the architect received the important Pritzker Prize in 2006, the highest award among the world’s architects, considered the Nobel Prize for architecture.

Nadezhda Afanasieff Mendes da Rocha is a designer through FAAP (2002); and architect through Escola da Cidade (2010). She currently coordinates the Platô Studio space, a platform for courses, exhibitions and discussions around design, alongside Julia Masagão, Gilberto Mariotti and Ralph Mayer. In 2016, she opened her own studio, called Satélite, where she develops projects using different design scales. She works in an authorial way, moving between graphic design, furniture design and architecture.