Sao Paulo Stadium, one of Vilanova Artigas’s designsArne Müseler / Wikimedia Commons
A collection of designs by Brazilian architect João Batista Vilanova Artigas (1915–1985) has been returned to the library of the School of Architecture and Urbanism at the University of São Paulo (FAU-USP). The collection had been kept at FAU-USP until April 1999, when it was transferred to the Vilanova Artigas Foundation, succeeded by the Virgínia and Vilanova Artigas Institute. An architectural engineer who graduated from USP in 1937, Artigas is one of the best-known names in the history of architecture in São Paulo. He designed the FAU-USP building, the Cícero Pompeu de Toledo stadium, used by the soccer club São Paulo Futebol Clube (SPFC), and other buildings in Ponta Grossa, Londrina, and Curitiba (FAU-USP, June 12). Meanwhile, the Center for Research and Documentation of Contemporary Brazilian History (CPDOC), managed by the Getulio Vargas Foundation (FGV) in Rio de Janeiro, incorporated and digitized the personal collection and academic work of anthropologist Alba Maria Zaluar (1942–2019). Born in Rio de Janeiro, Zaluar was a professor at Rio de Janeiro State University (UERJ) and one of the first to study Cidade de Deus and other communities in the west of Rio (Blog da Biblioteca Virtual do Pensamento Brasileiro, June 20).
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