Curriculum

Vigliecca & Associados (V&A) is an architecture and urban planning firm with practices in four main areas: Studies for PPP (Public–Private Partnership) and Urban Concessions (Propostas de Manifestações de Interesse Privado-MIP e Procedimentos de Manifestação de Interesse-PMI); Urban Plans and Urban Projects; Sports and Institutional Buildings (multi-purpose arenas, sports complexes and cultural and educational equipment); and Housing (residential, social housing and slum redevelopment).

Among the prominent projects are MIP Salvador (2014), Masterplan for Itapagipe Peninsula, Old Town and Atlantic Margin in Salvador (BA); PMI Tiete Arc Masterplan (2013), conceptual and propositional studies of the area of 6.000ha in São Paulo (SP); OUC Mooca-Vila Carioca (Tamanduateí Neighborhoods), integrated studies in the area of 1.600 in São Paulo (SP); OUC Tietê II (2010), reurbanization and requalification of the central valley of Osasco (SP); Arena Castelão, one of the venues of the 2014 FIFA World Cup, Deodoro Olympic Park, the largest Olympic area of the RIO2016; Advanced Materials and Energy Research Center from Universidade Federal de São Carlos-UFSCar (2015), educational building pioneer project; Parque Novo Santo Amaro V, social housing reference; Morro dos Macacos/Parque Vila Isabel (Morar Carioca) and Perímetro do Morro do S4 (Renova SP).

V&A was founded in 1996 in São Paulo and is formed by the founding partners Héctor Vigliecca and Luciene Quel and the associates Ronald Werner Fiedler (Head of Sports Projects and High Complex Buildings Projects) and Neli Shimizu (Head of Social Housing Projects and Slum Rehabilitation), in addition to a team of architects.

The company has heavily participated in national and international competitions receiving more than 50 awards as the 1º Prize unanimously in National Library Annex Competition, from National Library of Brasil, in Rio de Janeiro, the largest library in Latin America.

Internationally, it was a finalist in the Grand Egyptian Museum Competition (2003), in Cairo being awarded an “High Honorable Mention”, and for the Mexican National Library Competition (2002), in Mexico City. It also was awarded an “Honorable Mention” for the competition Plan Nueva Alameda Providencia (2015) in Santiago Chile.

Besides of architectural and urban planning practices, Vigliecca & Associados has established as a hub of knowledge, meeting academic demands and producing books that portray their thoughts and experience on projects. It has three bilingual books published (Portuguese/English): “Hypotheses on Reality” (2012), “Arena Castelão – Governador Plácido Aderaldo Castelo” (2014) and “The Third Territory – Collective Housing and City” (2014). This book has been also launched in the United States, by the invitation of University of Florida and the American Institute of Architects (AIA). There are also the digital book “Projeto Urbano: Alameda Providencia, Chile” (2015).