The brutalist ruin

Abstract

A brutalist house built in the city of Sao Paulo, by architect David Ottoni for his own family, is the subject of this photographic essay. A superposition of images produced in two different periods: the earlier were made by the architect himself around the early 1970s; the latter, of my authorship, were taken between 2013 and 2015, as part of a master's degree project on brutalist architecture and the image of its ruin. The architect David Ottoni, my father, was a student and disciple of Vilanova Artigas, and lived in the house for thirty years; I, a professional photographer, for seventeen years.