Published by Casa da Palavra, the book Aesthetics of swing: the architecture of favelas through the work of Hélio Oiticica (Estética da ginga: a arquitetura das favelas através da obra de Hélio Oiticica), by Paola Berestein Jacques is a highly astute and incisive work mapping three spheres of development and transition - the artistic, architectural and socio-cultural.

highly inter-disciplinary in nature, it interweaves concepts and discourse related to art, architecture and philosophy.

In her work, Jacques questions prevailing architectural conventions, positing instead a different kind of architectural achievement and beauty - the development of the favelas of Rio de Janeiro - She explores this different kind of urban architecture through the works of an anarchist painter, sculptor and artist, Hélio Oiticica.