Paulo Tavares

Paulo Tavares’s practice dwells at the frontiers between architecture, visual cultures and advocacy. Operating through multiple media and across fields, his work opens a collaborative arena aimed at environmental justice and counter-hegemony narratives. Tavares’s projects have been feature in various publications and exhibitions worldwide, and he is the author of several books questioning the colonial legacies of modernity: Forest Law (2014, with Ursula Biemann), Memória da Terra (2019), Des-Habitat (2019) and Lucio Costa era Racista? (2022). He leads the agency autonoma and was co-curator of the 2019 Chicago Architecture Biennial.