Lais Myrrha's project titled Gameleria Project 1971 is about creating a "little miniature model" of one of Brazil's biggest civil construction disasters. The Gameleira tragedy occurred when Brazil was under a dictatorship, so the incident and the architect responsible were simply swept under the rug to be forgotten by all. This gap in history inspired Myrrha's work because she wanted to show a deconstructed symbolic representation of the project that was deemed modern in a negative sense at the time. This project presents relevance in current architecture because it brings about the fact that projects with quick turnarounds lead to an increase in construction death and injury. While trying to construct, the architects and project managers are in turn deconstructing and taking away the safety factor of those bringing the project to life. This project is Myrrha's way of reconstructing the missing pieces in Brazilian history while bringing awareness to Niemeyer, architect of the disaster, who was the unfortunate pawn of critic Mario Pedrosa's claim to modernism in Brazil.
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