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cheios e negativos

English translation: solids and negative (spaces)

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Portuguese term or phrase:cheios e negativos
English translation:solids and negative (spaces)
Entered by: Douglas Bissell

14:02 Sep 9, 2017
Portuguese to English translations [PRO]
Tech/Engineering - Architecture
Portuguese term or phrase: cheios e negativos
Com a pureza do branco e a espontaneidade de uma pedra natural, desenha-se uma espacialidade diversificada, de “cheios e negativos” em que o interior e o exterior se encontram em recantos, aprazíveis e abrigados ou deliberadamente expostos, mas onde apetece estar para desfrutar do presente ou, até mesmo, contemplar o futuro.
Douglas Bissell
Portugal
Local time: 20:49
solids and negative (spaces)
Explanation:
My suggestion...

Does the building convey a sense of solidity or of the interplay of solids and negative spaces?
In "How to Write Art History"
By Anne D'Alleva
https://books.google.pt/books?isbn=1856694887
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Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
Portugal
Local time: 20:49
Grading comment
Thanks
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solids and negative (spaces)


Explanation:
My suggestion...

Does the building convey a sense of solidity or of the interplay of solids and negative spaces?
In "How to Write Art History"
By Anne D'Alleva
https://books.google.pt/books?isbn=1856694887

Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
Portugal
Local time: 20:49
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 12
Grading comment
Thanks

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Muriel Vasconcellos: Or 'solid and negative spaces'.
8 hrs
  -> Thanks, Muriel!
agree  Margarida Ataide
19 hrs
  -> Obrigada, Margarida!
agree  Gilmar Fernandes
19 hrs
  -> Obrigada, Gilmar!
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