Recommendations

Possible Exchanges

By way of concluding this report suggestions are presented for the improvement of cultural exchanges between Brazil and The Netherlands. Analogously the topics previously described, the activities proposed are subdivided into blocks. In a first group the interchange actions are related to professional entities, educational institutions, NGOs, publishers and cultural venues. Finally exchange initiatives structured on the selected themes and projects.

Professional entities

• Promote the exchange between co-related professional entities, such as ABAP and ASBEA, with the objective of stimulating partnerships for the realization of public contests and projects in both countries;
• Stimulate the approach of the NAi and the IAB to the purpose of structuring partnerships in exhibitions, courses and conferences, with optional support of educational institutions;
• Reinforce the activities developed between the NAi and the IAB, for the purpose of exhibiting selections from the Dutch entries at the International Architecture Biennales of São Paulo in various state capital cities of Brazil, using the installations of the IAB and the various cultural venues listed in this report;

Educational institutions

• Strengthen the partnerships between the Brazilian and Dutch universities, at the graduate and postgraduate level, restructuring the exchange projects between Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) and FAU/USP and FAU/ UFRJ, among other internationally recognized Dutch and Brazilian universities; encourage the creation of exchange lines for graduate students of various Brazilian institutions of recognized competence such as the Escola da Cidade, and at the graduate and postgraduate levels the FAU/UPM and the Catholic universities of Belo Horizonte, Campinas, Curitiba, Goiânia, Porto Alegre, Recife and Rio de Janeiro; promote the exchange of professors from these institutions with the most relevant Dutch institutions dedicated to architecture, urbanism and landscaping;
• Create a bilateral policy for the donation of thesis and publications between libraries of the most relevant academic institutions;
• Stimulate the creation of short duration courses in the months of January and July for projects centered on the resolution of specific architectural and/or urbanism problems under the supervision of professors from the main Brazilian and Dutch universities, with the possible financial support of state agencies that promote research;
• Implement the granting of scholarships in the areas of housing, education, heritage, sustainability, environment and urban infrastructure, with a view to promoting the diffusion of scientific knowledge acquired in the principal Brazilian and Dutch universities;

Editorial market

• Identify the possible partnerships between Dutch and Brazilian publishers, with a goal to publishing reference books for modern and contemporary architectural production with the involvement of universities and research centers;
• Stimulate the creation of a section in the main Brazilian and Dutch periodicals dedicated to the discussion of the main Brazilian and Dutch architectural themes, written by critics from both countries;
• Propose to the editors of the principal architecture magazines the publishing of special editions dedicated to the contemporary Brazilian and Dutch production, illustrated with projects selected by a committee of critics;
• Intensify the exchange of content of virtual magazines and of the most important portals dedicated to architecture and urbanism;

NGOs

• Favor the broad diffusion of the activities performed by the main Brazilian and Dutch NGOs dedicated to social promotion and sustainable development;
• Establish or consolidate bilateral partnerships in urban re-qualifying projects developed by the Jaime Lerner Institute, Viva o Centro, Viva Rio and Vivercidades with Dutch NGOs and research centers;
• Create new exchange networks between Brazilian and Dutch research institutions – such as the Institute for Technological Research (IPT) of the USP – with a research goal of using environmentally correct natural resources in construction;
• Broaden and reinforce the existing ties between the Dutch and Brazilian NGOs such as the partnerships between the Pólis Institute and the Nederlandse Organisatie voor Internationale Bijstand (Novib);
• Stimulate proposals of partnerships for the development of architectural and urban planning projects specifically dedicated to the question of social housing and sustainability, focusing on the practice and action methods of the NGOs’ Fase, Ipê, Permear and Usina;

Cultural venues

• It is suggested the realization of lectures or short duration courses given by Dutch architects and critics, in the cultural venues described in this report: Casa do Baile in Belo Horizonte; Casa Vilanova Artigas in Curitiba; Centro de Arquitetura e Urbanismo do Rio de Janeiro; Fundação Oscar Niemeyer in Brasília and Rio de Janeiro; The Museu da Casa Brasileira and the Fundação Tomie Ohtake in São Paulo;
• Alternatively the short duration courses described above could be given in buildings which are in the process of acquiring funds for the restoration of their installations, such as the Glass House – headquarters of the Lina Bo Bardi & Pietro Maria Bardi Foundation in São Paulo; or the Park Hotel by Lucio Costa in Nova Friburgo (RJ), according to the suggestion given by Ciro Pirondi (professor of the Escola da Cidade) and by the Cesar Guinle Institute, responsible for maintaining this referential building;
• In the same cultural venues and afterwards travelling within the Netherlands, exhibitions about contemporary Brazilian and Dutch architecture are proposed, structured from similar themes, with the purpose of identifying possible contact links between the countries;
• Based on those exhibitions, a publication containing not only the selected buildings but also critical essays written by Brazilian and Dutch experts is recommended;

Relevant themes and projects

• Spread, through lectures and bilingual publication, the content of this report to the most relevant Dutch professional entities, educational and research institutions, NGOs, publishing companies and cultural venues with the objective of propagating the Brazilian architectural production;
• Favor the establishment of internships subsidized by public funds especially in the fields of culture, education, housing, environment, urban transport and infrastructure;
• Structure a program of internships in outstanding Brazilian and Dutch architecture offices through bilateral agreements;
• Offer professional qualification programs in Brazil and in the Netherlands paid by research promotion agencies for professionals of proven reputation in the fields of architecture and urbanism working either for government or private practice;
• Stimulate the realization of exchanges between employees of private architecture, urbanism and landscape companies with a similar size and profile;
• Implement partnerships between the Brazilian and Dutch governments for the realization of architectural and urbanism projects designed by a mixed team selected through a public contest.