Author Unknown

Abstract

This article discusses the processes of re-signifying everyday life through Art and Architecture. It aims to demonstrate that the convergence between disciplinary fields occurs primarily through the recognition of shared values and worldviews, rather than through technical–poetic strategies. The methodology employed involved field research (direct source), access to primary documents (documentary research), and a literature review. Author Unknown begins with the reading of an artistic and architectural work, attentive to its praxis and confrontations. Rochelle Costi displaces trivial objects, activating readings of place and memory. The project for the União Continental building, carried out by the architectural office MMBB in São Paulo, Brazil, values the ordinary and the preexisting. Rather than treating what exists as a datum to be preserved or surpassed, the cases analysed reveal modes of operation that enchant the banal and make visible the layers of experience that inhabit urban spaces. The text invites careful observation of what tends to remain at the margins, countering the logic of the tabula rasa and the emphasis on the exceptional, in dialogue with Georges Perec, Nicolas Bourriaud, and Walter Benjamin.