A short film by the German vanguard artist Hans Richter (1888–1976) is overlain with the image of a pioneering modernist house in São Paulo designed by the Russian architect Gregori Warchavchik and inaugurated in 1930. Richter’s pure lines and forms are redolent of constructivist art and the original vocation of the house, which broke with architectural norms in search of simplicity and functionality, thus inserting the modernist project in the context of the city. The work highlights the formal and political connection between modern art, design, and architecture.