By Angelo Bucci

Advocating an architecture that is "the opposite of global action," Angelo Bucci’s work responds to the topography of the city and to its urban environment, in his native Sao Paulo and abroad. In a lecture delivered at Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Bucci discusses work designed with his firm SPBR, projects that span from the scale of the house to the city. His built work is here accompanied by an excerpt from his doctoral dissertation, which explores how the devices available to architecture-and the sectional manipulation of groundplanes in particular-can mitigate some of the inequities and exclusions built in to the fabric of the contemporary city.