Brazil

Two entries, one city, and the same architect twice — which is either a thin country or a very concentrated one.

Both entries are Lina Bo Bardi, and both are in São Paulo, so the country reads as one long argument by one woman about what a wall is for. I have stood in the first of them and not yet in the second, and I would rather say so than pretend otherwise.

The glass house is by appointment: you write, you wait, and you go when they let you. That is the whole method, and it is not a hardship — it simply means Brazil cannot be done on a whim from the airport.

Rio, Salvador and Minas are conspicuously absent from this page. Not out of judgement — out of honesty. When I have been, they will be here.