Buildings and organizations Francisco Prestes Maia

1 buildings , organizations

1.1 prestes maia building
1.2 mayor prestes maia library
1.3 prestes maia gallery

buildings , organizations

in addition many public roads named francisco prestes maia in state of são paulo , throughout brazil, several buildings , cultural institutions bear name, either honor him or because located on or near roadway named “prestes maia.”

prestes maia building


demonstration @ 911 prestes maia avenue, 2006

one particularly noteworthy building commonly referred prestes maia 22-story abandoned factory in downtown são paulo, located near luz train station. 2 tower blocks @ 911 avenida prestes maia still registered long-defunct former owner, national cloth company (companhia nacional de tecidos). in 1994 building purchased local businessman, jorge nacle hamuche.

since 2000s there have been successive occupations poor and/or homeless individuals connected squatter’s rights groups such movimento dos trabalhadores sem teto (mtst), local homeless rights group affiliated national landless workers movement, or movimento dos trabalhadores sem terra (mst). these occupations have been subject of international media coverage , documentary filmmakers.

mayor prestes maia library

the mayor prestes maia library (biblioteca prefeito prestes maia) multi-story public library located @ 822 joão dias avenue in santo amaro district of são paulo. building designed prestes maia.

since december 2012, library’s collection of more 53,000 items has been focused on architecture , urbanism, including fiction , non-fiction books, magazines, atlases, braille , multimedia items. lower 3 floors contain reading rooms , reference , circulation areas. upper floors made of offices, meeting , exhibition space, , archives of former mayor.

the special collection, coleção prestes maia, of 12,000 items includes rare books architecture, urbanism, aesthetics, , history, collection of personal objects, works of art, , prestes maia’s papers. majority of material @ biblioteca prefeito prestes maia circulates regularly or otherwise available public. library’s collections indexed in são paulo municipal library system online catalog.

prestes maia gallery

graça victor brecheret @ galeria prestes maia, são paulo

the prestes maia gallery subterranean cultural space connects praça da patriarca valé anhangabaú in são paulo’s historic center. completed in 1940, during prestes maia’s second term mayor, not named him until time later.

from sixty years space functioned alternately art gallery, municipal offices, , homeless shelter. had badly deteriorated , in late 2000 administration of gallery taken on são paulo museum of art (museu de arte de são paulo — masp), planned major renovation.

the renovations of galeria prestes maia continued until 2013. remodeled space contains various exhibition spaces, 2 tunnels connecting matarazzo building (são paulo’s city hall) , old othon hotel building (now occupied city government).