The greatest invention of man, the city is its natural habitat. Scenario of survival, territory of mythology, art and science, is communion, collective building, as collective is the construction of thought. This is the city of multiple dimensions that inhabits the work of Jaime Lerner.
More than celebrating its 50 years of architecture and urbanism, “Das Vozes da Cidade” is the path of his work - from imagination to inspiration, to the idea. A work based on functionality and art, a combination that well synthesizes his thinking.
Curitiba is the first stage of Lerner's imagination. Looking at the tile design in his father's store, he discovers the perspective and knows he will be an architect. Growing up in Barão do Rio Branco, a street that was then a synthesis of the world, with the train station, the Legislative Assembly, radio stations, intense commerce and a land that received the circuses that were exhibited in the city, forge the look there of the urbanist future.
The innovative work that changed the face of Curitiba in the 1970s arouses the attention of writers, artists, scholars. It inspires urban managers and makes Curitiba the object of desire in many cities around the world.
Lerner is not the architect of exuberance. Not a utopian or a visionary. Rather, he is a realist, an operator of the possible dream, whose imagination has been consolidated as a reference idea, within reach of the reality of any city.