Curvaceous Houses

A November article in The New York Times talks about the many curving design elements in environments created by Polish Brazilian designer Jorge Zalszupin (Michael Snyder, 2023, “Wacky, Curvaceous Houses in Brazil That Feel Like Cocoons,”

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/08/t-magazine/jorge-zalszupin-brazilian-modernism.html).  Here at The Space Doctors we often discuss how comfortable curves make us feel (for example, here).

As Snyder notes “Years before buying her property, Boni [who owns a home designed by Zalszupin] had lived in a classic Paulista house, all straight lines and hard concrete, a marvel of rationality that, she says, left much to be desired. ‘There was no light, no air. It was too hot or too cold, and it was always too dark.’ The Zalszupin house is the opposite, its handcrafted walls and labyrinthine hallways imbued with whimsy, its every surface a gesture of gratitude for the country that the architect made his own. ‘Moving here,’  Boni says, ‘I felt free.’”