The composer Emanuel Dimas de Melo Pimenta met John Cage in 1985, at the Biennale of Sao Paulo. They quickly became friends and Pimenta started collaborating with him and Merce Cunningham. Such collaboration continued over the seven last years of Cage's life and for more than twenty-five years with Cunningham, with hundreds of concerts all over the world. In the celebrations of the centennial of John Cage in 2012, Emanuel Pimenta organized, contributed or participated in more than thirty-eight events in seven countries dedicated to his old friend. Legendary Lucrezia De Domizio, Baroness...

O Aqueduto das Aguas Livres de Lisboa e um dos maiores edificios do mundo. Inteiramente construido em pedra, o edificio resistiu intocado ao terrivel terremoto de 1755. Os seus mais de cinquenta e oito quilometros de extensao revelam uma profunda relacao com o universo mistico que caracterizou a Europa ao logo dos seculos. Emanuel Dimas de Melo Pimenta, arquiteto e fotografo, revela, num apaixonante ensaio fotografico realizado em 2012 e 2013, imagens raramente vistas cobrindo boa parte do Aqueduto. Para alem de um poema de Fernando Pessoa, o livro inclui, ainda, uma nova e tratada traducao...

The Free Water's Aqueduct is one of the largest buildings in the world. Totally constructed in stone the building resisted untouched the terrible earthquake of 1755. Its more than 40 miles of extension reveal a profound relation to the mystic universe that designed Europe over centuries. Emanuel Dimas de Melo Pimenta, architect and photographer, reveals in a marvelous photographic essay made in 2012 and 2013, rare images covering good part of the Aqueduct. Not only a poem by the legendary poet Fernando Pessoa, the book also includes the text Fama Fraternitatis, from the 16th century, which...

In 2012 the architect and urban planner Emanuel Dimas de Melo Pimenta launched the first course of space architecture in Brazil - which was one of the first of the world - at the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism of USP University of Sao Paulo, in the city of Sao Paulo. Emanuel Pimenta, who coined the concept of virtual architecture in the early 1980s, elaborated a method to design buildings in the outer space, which is described in the book. Not only important for space projects, this book contains precious information for architectural design also on planet Earth. It also includes a...

Em 2002 o arquiteto e urbanista Emanuel Dimas de Melo Pimenta lancou o primeiro curso de arquitetura espacial no Brasil - que foi um dos primeiros no mundo - na Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo da USP Universidade de Sao Paulo, na cidade de Sao Paulo. Emanuel Pimenta, que cunhou o conceito de arquitetura virtual nos primeiros anos da decada de 1980, elaborou um metodo para projetar edificios no espaco sideral, que e descrito no livro. Nao somente importante para projetos no espaco, este livro contem informacao preciosa para projetos de arquitetura na Terra. Ele tambem inclui uma linha de...

Emanuel Dimas de Melo Pimenta, artist, philosopher, architect and music composer, presents a new long poem, this time the Odyssey, on Alexander Pope's legendary translation from the Greek. It is a different poem, bringing something of the magical universe of Homer to our days. His other books of the kind, like his fabulous poem on Walt Whitman or on Cicero, created a strong impact on the readers.

Woiksed is a virtual planet created by the architect and urban planner Emanuel Dimas de Melo Pimenta in 1980. It was the first virtual planet in history, anticipating Second Life and similar projects in more than twenty years. In Woiksed - Virtual Planet, Emanuel Pimenta tells how the birth of such project happened, his involvement with personalities like Rene Berger, the Lake Maggiore Prize in 1993, the influence, sometimes at distance, from personalities like Richard Buckminster Fuller, John Cage, Paolo Soleri, John Wheeler, Licklider or Morton Heilig among others. The book includes various...

Woiksed e um planeta virtual criado pelo arquiteto e urbanista Emanuel Dimas de Melo Pimenta em 1980. Foi o primeiro planeta virtual da historia, antecipando o Second Life e outros projetos semelhantes em mais de vinte anos. Em Woiksed - Planeta Virtual, Emanuel Pimenta conta como aconteceu o nascimento desse projeto, o envolvimento com personagens com Rene Berger, o premio Lago Maggiore em 1993, a sua influencia, por vezes mesmo a distancia, de personagens como Richard Buskminster Fuller, John Cage, Paolo Soleri, John Wheeler, Licklider ou Morton Heilig entre outros. O livro inclui varias...

Arquitetos e um ensaio fotografico realizado pelo arquiteto, urbanista - e tambem fotografo - Emanuel Dimas de Melo Pimenta ao longo de quarenta anos, em vinte paises. Ele reune imagens de cento e cinquenta edificios, construidos nos ultimos dois mil e quinhentos anos, criados por duzentos arquitetos. O ensaio reune obras de Agrippa, Leonardo da Vinci, Carlo Maderno, Bernini, Michelangelo, Giotto, Palladio, Leon Battista Alberti, Frank Lloyd Wright, Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier, Santiago Calatrava, Frank Gehry, Oscar Niemeyer, Alvaro Siza Vieira, Eeno Saarinen, Eduardo Kneese de Mello,...

Architects is a photographic essay made by the architect, urban planner - and also photographer - Emanuel Dimas de Melo Pimenta over forty years, in twenty countries. It joins images of one hundred and fifty buildings, built in the last twenty-five centuries, created by two hundred architects. The essay shows works by Agrippa, Leonardo da Vinci, Carlo Maderno, Bernini, Michelangelo, Giotto, Palladio, Leon Battista Alberti, Frank Lloyd Wright, Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier, Santiago Calatrava, Frank Gehry, Oscar Niemeyer, Alvaro Siza Vieira, Eeno Saarinen, Eduardo Kneese de Mello, Raul Lino,...