Architecture as Civil Commitment: Lucio Costa's Modernist Project for Brazil: Lucio Costa's Modernist Project for Brazil

ISBN-13: 9781032085333 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 226 str.

Gaia Piccarolo

Opis

Architecture as Civil Commitment analyzes the many ways in which Costa shaped the discourse of Brazilian modern architecture, tracing the roots, developments, and counter-marches of a singular form of engagement that programmatically chose to act by cultural means rather than by political ones.

Spis treści

Foreword Fernando Lara

Introduction

1. The start of a militant career: the direction of the School of Fine Arts







The young director of the School of Fine Arts





A discreet revolution





The Salão dos Tenentes





Report of a failure












2. Reasons of the new architecture: Gustavo Capanema’s grands travauxs







A history to reconsider





The great public assignments and Capanema’s "dossier"





New architecture, between theory and practice





Le Corbusier and the appel à l’Autorité





Negotiations and lost opportunities












3. A programme for national architecture: the years of the Estado Novo







Struggles and compromises





Toward a State architecture





A genealogy of modern Brazilian architecture





A rising intellectualisation





Modernism and national heritage












4. A strategy of mediation: between the CIAM and the SPHAN







Shaping national heritage





Dealing with historical pre-existence





The colonial roots of Brazilian architecture





Baroque and national personality





Brazilian houses












5. Shaping the true Machine Age: art, city, landscape

Parisian experiences

Art and the emancipation of the masses

In search of a new monumentality

A maquisard in urban planning

Landscape and urbanism

A new humanism

O autorze

Gaia Piccarolo is Adjunct Professor of History of Contemporary Architecture and Landscape at the Politecnico di Milano and member of the editorial staff of the architectural magazine Lotus International. She received her PhD in History of Architecture and Urban Planning from Politecnico di Torino in 2010, with a thesis on Lucio Costa’s public charges during the Vargas Era. She curated several exhibitions and published extensively on contemporary architecture and urban planning, with special reference to Brazilian modernism and the circulation of ideas and models between Europe and the Americas. Her research has been presented in Europe, the United States, Canada, and Brazil in the framework of international seminars and conferences.