Architecture As Civil Commitment Lucio Costa S Modernist Project For Brazil
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Architecture As Civil Commitment Lucio Costa S Modernist Project For Brazil
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Author : Gaia Piccarolo
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2019-11-04
Architecture As Civil Commitment Lucio Costa S Modernist Project For Brazil written by Gaia Piccarolo and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-04 with Architecture categories.
Architecture as Civil Commitment analyses the many ways in which Lucio 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. Split into five chapters, the book addresses specific case-studies of Costa’s professional activity, pointing towards his multiple roles in the Brazilian federal government and focusing on passages of his work that are much less known outside of Brazil, such as his role inside Estado Novo bureaucracy, his leadership at SPHAN, and his participation in UNESCO’s headquarters project, all the way to the design of Brasilia. Digging deep into the original documents, the book crafts a powerful historical reconstruction that gives the international readership a detailed picture of one of the most fascinating architects of the 20th century, in all his contradictory geniality. It is an ideal read for those interested in Brazilian modernism, students and scholars of architectural and urban planning history, socio-cultural and political history, and visual arts.
Oscar Niemeyer And The Architecture Of Brazil
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Author : David Kendrick Underwood
language : en
Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications
Release Date : 1994
Oscar Niemeyer And The Architecture Of Brazil written by David Kendrick Underwood and has been published by Rizzoli International Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Architecture categories.
"Oscar Niemeyer, born in 1907, is widely considered this century's leading Latin American architect, as well as one of the pioneers of modern architecture. This volume explores the major themes and sources of the most important works from all phases of Niemeyer's career, from the early collaborations of the 1930s and 1940s with Lucio Costa, the spiritual father of Brazilian modernism, to the 1989 Memorial da America Latina in Sao Paulo, a complex that reveals the maturation of Niemeyer's free-form style in the service of his utopian vision. A central theme of Niemeyer's work has been its reflection of the Brazilian jeito, a sinuous and improvisational style manifested in everything from the country's sensual, undulating landscape to its attraction to spontaneous impulses, best known through its vibrant music and dance. The jeito and the milieu of Rio de Janeiro lie at the heart of Niemeyer's free-form style, which emphasizes the inherent plasticity of the native curve over the rigid rectilinearity of the International Style in Europe. A second theme treats the influence on Niemeyer of the poetic style of Le Corbusier. Also considered are Niemeyer's attraction to surrealist biomorphic forms and his desire to express a sense of the fantastic in architecture. A final theme is Niemeyer's search for an aesthetic utopia that would resolve social dilemmas by wishing them away through architecture. Herein lies Niemeyer's strength, for as his architecture reflects the multiple dichotomies of the Brazilian experience, it projects an emotive universality that few architects have been able to achieve."--Publisher.
Architecture And Justice
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Author : Jonathan Simon
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-04-15
Architecture And Justice written by Jonathan Simon and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-15 with Architecture categories.
Bringing together leading scholars in the fields of criminology, international law, philosophy and architectural history and theory, this book examines the interrelationships between architecture and justice, highlighting the provocative and curiously ambiguous juncture between the two. Illustrated by a range of disparate and diverse case studies, it draws out the formal language of justice, and extends the effects that architecture has on both the place of, and the individuals subject to, justice. With its multi-disciplinary perspective, the study serves as a platform on which to debate the relationships between the ceremonial, legalistic, administrative and penal aspects of justice, and the spaces that constitute their settings. The structure of the book develops from the particular to the universal, from local situations to the larger city, and thereby examines the role that architecture and urban space play in the deliberations of justice. At the same time, contributors to the volume remind us of the potential impact the built environment can have in undermining the proper juridical processes of a socio-political system. Hence, the book provides both wise counsel and warnings of the role of public/civic space in affirming our sense of a just or unjust society.
Architecture As A Performing Art
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Author : Marcia Feuerstein
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-04-15
Architecture As A Performing Art written by Marcia Feuerstein and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-15 with Architecture categories.
How do buildings act with people and among people in the performances of life? This collection of essays reveals a deep alliance between architecture and the performing arts, uncovering its roots in ancient stories, and tracing a continuous tradition of thought that emerges in contemporary practice. With fresh insight, the authors ask how buildings perform with people as partners, rather than how they look as formal compositions. They focus on actions: the door that offers the possibility of making a dramatic entrance, the window that frames a scene, and the city street that is transformed in carnival. The essays also consider the design process as a performance improvised among many players and offer examples of recent practice that integrates theater and dance. This collection advances architectural theory, history, and criticism by proposing the lens of performance as a way to engage the multiple roles that buildings can play, without reducing them to functional categories. By casting architecture as spatial action rather than as static form, these essays open a promising avenue for future investigation. For architects, the essays propose integrating performance into design through playful explorations that can reveal intense relationships between people and place, and among people in place. Such practices develop an architectural imagination that intuitively asks, 'How might people play out their stories in this place?' and 'How might this place spark new stories?' Questions such as these reside in the heart of all of the essays presented here. Together, they open a position in the intersection between everyday life and staged performance to rethink the role of architectural design.
Beyond Reason Modern Architecture In Brazil According To Lucio Costa 1924 1951
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Author :
language : pt-BR
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004
Beyond Reason Modern Architecture In Brazil According To Lucio Costa 1924 1951 written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with categories.
A importância de Lucio Costa (1902-1998) para a constituição daarquitetura moderna no Brasil no segundo quartel do século XX excedeu, emmuito, a sua atuação como projetista. Autor ou co-autor de projetos fundamentaispara a renovação da arquitetura brasileira, além de artífice de acontecimentoscruciais, Lucio Costa foi, ademais, o responsável pela produção e difusão públicade enunciados que, acompanhando-a pari passu, deram sustentação e em certamedida tornaram possível, já a partir de meados da década de 1940, oextraordinário sucesso de uma certa arquitetura moderna brasileira. Focalizandoexclusivamente a produção textual de Lucio Costa, esta Tese procura mapear oscaminhos e características do conceituar costiano entre 1924 e 1951. Mais do queidentificar as características do desenho que o arquiteto dá a essa arquitetura, procurou-se identificar, a cada momento, as questões que norteiam as formulaçõesdo arquiteto; em que medida estas se aproximam da agenda do movimentomodernista brasileiro; em que ponto ou momento dele se afastam.
Popular Modernism
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Author : Fernando Luiz Camargos Lara
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001
Popular Modernism written by Fernando Luiz Camargos Lara and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with categories.
Architecture And Nature
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Author : Abilio Guerra
language : en
Publisher: Romano Guerra Editora
Release Date : 2019-12-04
Architecture And Nature written by Abilio Guerra and has been published by Romano Guerra Editora this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-12-04 with Architecture categories.
The first book of the collection "Latin America: Thoughts" presents a collection of Abilio Guerra's texts that gravitate around a birthmark of modernism in Brazil. At issue is the belief (found in texts, narratives and speeches from 1920-1940) in an alternative modern action – where culture and nature play leading roles – which because of its discursive effectiveness metamorphoses into real features of Brazilian modern architecture.
Oscar Niemeyer And Brazilian Free Form Modernism
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Author : David Kendrick Underwood
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1994
Oscar Niemeyer And Brazilian Free Form Modernism written by David Kendrick Underwood and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Architecture categories.
A second theme treats the influence on Niemeyer of the poetic style of Le Corbusier.
The Rise Of Popular Modernist Architecture In Brazil
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Author : Fernando Luiz Lara
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
The Rise Of Popular Modernist Architecture In Brazil written by Fernando Luiz Lara and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Architecture categories.
"Rather than glorifying the phenomenon of popular modernism or holding it up to the paradigmatic examples of good architecture, this book serves as a bridge to understand the complexities of the phenomenon's location and context as well as how popular and how modern buildings labeled popular modernist really are." "Defining the phenomenon of popular modernism in architecture, Fernando Luiz Lara introduces its characteristic place and time. Based on an analysis of five hundred photographs, Lara then describes the physical characteristics of modernist buildings, locating popular modernism within the context of the challenges faced by architecture. Readers begin to discover how the meanings of modernism are specifically manifested in Brazil within the larger context of Latin American and global modernism."--BOOK JACKET.
Seeing Like A State
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Author : James C. Scott
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2020-03-17
Seeing Like A State written by James C. Scott and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-03-17 with Political Science categories.
“One of the most profound and illuminating studies of this century to have been published in recent decades.”—John Gray, New York Times Book Review Hailed as “a magisterial critique of top-down social planning” by the New York Times, this essential work analyzes disasters from Russia to Tanzania to uncover why states so often fail—sometimes catastrophically—in grand efforts to engineer their society or their environment, and uncovers the conditions common to all such planning disasters. “Beautifully written, this book calls into sharp relief the nature of the world we now inhabit.”—New Yorker “A tour de force.”— Charles Tilly, Columbia University
