scholarly journals 1929, Le Corbusier e São Paulo: paisagem física e política

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guilherme Pianca Moreno
Keyword(s):  
Le Corbusier ◽  
Sao Paulo ◽  
São Paulo

Houses beyond manifestos

2021 ◽  
pp. 18-25
Author(s):  
Ruth Verde Zein
Keyword(s):  
Le Corbusier ◽  
Sao Paulo ◽  
Modern Architecture ◽  
São Paulo ◽  
Interconnected Network ◽  
Commercial Space ◽  
Good Shape ◽  
Individual Solution

Brazilian historiography on modern architecture, replicated by international authors, confirms the importance and the pioneer stance of Gregori Ilitch Warchavchik (1896-1972)/Mina Klabin’s (1896-1969) 1927-1932 architecture in São Paulo, and the 1126 Bahia Street (Luiz da Silva Prado) house, 1930-1931, São Paulo, Brazil, is a remarkable example of their initial set of houses. Its design dialogues with other houses simultaneously designed by Adolf Loos (1870-1933), Le Corbusier (1887-1965), Juan O’Gorman (1905-1982), and the connections among all these modernist pieces and their authors suggest the informal existence of an interconnected network of creators, spread across continents. Likewise, they all put forward proselytizing strategies to amplify the repercussion of their works through exhibitions, publications, and debates. The generous internal spaces of this house on Bahia Street, the steady play of its geometrical composition, and its wise topographical and innovative landscape arrangements are well balanced, providing the authors’ aim of both making a manifesto and providing the site and the client’s necessities with an appropriate individual solution. The house has been used as a commercial space in recent decades, but it has been properly maintained and it is still in good shape.

scholarly journals MONUMENTALIZING MODERN MOBILITY

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlos Eduardo Comas
Keyword(s):  
South America ◽  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Buenos Aires ◽  
Le Corbusier ◽  
Sao Paulo ◽  
Site Conditions ◽  
São Paulo ◽  
Landscape Urbanism ◽  
Palabras Clave ◽  
Scholarly Attention

Abstract: The inhabitable viaduct is one of the most intriguing design proposals of Le Corbusier. Scholarly attention has focused upon the curvilinear megastructures designed for Rio de Janeiro and Algiers and their connection to the Ville Radieuse, downplaying the introduction of the inhabitable viaduct in São Paulo, and its connection with earlier proposals for Montevideo and Buenos Aires, the Plan Voisin and Ville Contemporaine, when Le Corbusier himself suggested that all these designs make up a sequence. The inhabitable viaduct has been understood as a reaction to non-European landscape and the airplane view, standing for a new sense of the organic in Le Corbusier’s work. A closer inspection of these designs along with Le Corbusier’s pertinent texts and imagery suggests that his architecture from 1929 onwards changes in degree rather than nature. The genesis of the inhabitable viaduct is seen as part of a sequence of topological transformations, informed by specific but generalizable site conditions and a host of precedents, but also, and primarily, as an alternative in Le Corbusier's controversial quest for monumentalizing the modern metropolis. Resumen: El viaducto habitable es una de las propuestas más intrigantes de Le Corbusier. Los estudiosos han concentrado su atención en las mega-estructuras curvilíneas proyectadas para Río de Janeiro y Argelia y en sus conexiones con la Ville Radieuse, menospreciando la introducción del viaducto habitable en São Paulo, y su conexión con las propuestas anteriores para Montevideo y Buenos Aires, el Plan Voisin y Ville Contemporaine, cuando Le Corbusier mismo sugirió que todos eses proyectos forman una secuencia. El viaducto habitable ha sido entendido como una reacción al paisaje no-europeo y a la vista del avión, indicando un sentido nuevo de lo orgánico en la obra de Le Corbusier. Una inspección mas detenida de eses proyectos a la luz de textos e imágenes pertinentes del arquitecto sugiere que su arquitectura del 1929 en adelante sufre un cambio de énfasis y no de naturaleza. La génesis del viaducto habitable se ve aquí como parte de una secuencia de transformaciones topológica, que son informadas tanto por condiciones de situación a la vez específicas y susceptible de generalización cuanto por un conjunto de precedentes, pero también, y primariamente, como una alternativa en la búsqueda controvertida de Le Corbusier por monumentalizar la metrópolis moderna.  Keywords: Inhabitable viaduct/ South America/ Algiers/ Monumentality/ Landscape/ Urbanism. Palabras clave: Viaducto habitable/ Suramerica/ Argelia/ Monumentalidad/ Paisaje/ Urbanismo. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/LC2015.2015.949 

scholarly journals Le Corbusier and São Paulo – 1929: Architecture and Landscape

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guilherme Moreno Pianca
Keyword(s):  
Le Corbusier ◽  
Sao Paulo ◽  
São Paulo ◽  
Western History ◽  
History And Memory ◽  
Palabras Clave ◽  
America Latina ◽  
The One ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City

Abstract: This article looks into Le Corbusier’s urban proposal for the City of São Paulo, as formulated during his journey to South America in 1929. It highlights the relationship between Architecture and Landscape exposed by Le Corbusier’s plan. This paper sets out to investigate the analysis that the innovative Swiss architect performed of the geography and morphology of São Paulo. It contrasts to the works and plans carried out by technicians and engineers at that time. In order to explain how Le Corbusier’s treatment of nature and landscape differs from them, we study the extent to which Le Corbusier’s plans show design approaches, which were unusual in terms of Western History and Memory. He also looks into the relationship between Le Corbusier’s work, on the one hand, and new technological elements and changes in the visual culture at that time, on the other hand, thus seeking to highlight certain obscure spots within Le Corbusier’s work. This study aims at bringing forward some speculations and methods present in the work of Le Corbusier on cities. It deals with contradictory aspects in Le Corbusier’s work in order to deepen our understanding of contemporary urban problems. Resumen: Este artículo investiga la hipótesis de proyecto de Le Corbusier para la ciudad de San Pablo, propuesta durante su viaje a América Latina en 1929, focalizando en las relaciones entre arquitectura y paisaje. La primera cuestión analizada en este trabajo es el innovador análisis de la geografía y la morfología de San Pablo propuesto por el arquitecto suizo, que contrasta con la manera con que los técnicos e ingenieros locales desarrollaban sus propuestas en ese momento. Para explicar dicha diferencia en la manera de lidiar con la naturaleza y el paisaje, el autor de este articulo estudia como el trabajo de Le Corbusier presenta abordajes de proyecto inusuales para la Historia y la Memoria, y su relación con los nuevos elementos tecnológicos y de la cultura visual de la época, procurando así resaltar ciertos puntos oscuros en el trabajo del arquitecto. Esta discusión intenta cuestionar ciertas especulaciones proyectuales y metodologías de trabajo presentes en el trabajo de Le Corbusier sobre ciudades, utilizando sus aspectos contradictorios como modo de profundizar nuestro entendimiento de los problemas urbanos contemporáneos.  Keywords: Modern Architecture; Modern Urbanism; Landscape Architecture; Le Corbusier; São Paulo. Palabras clave: Arquitectura Moderna; Urbanismo Moderno; Arquitectura Del Paisaje; Le Corbusier; São Paulo. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/LC2015.2015.937

scholarly journals “The Nude Man’s City”: Flávio de Carvalho’s Anthropophagic Architecture as Cultural Criticism

Pólemos ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 91-119
Author(s):  
Panu Minkkinen
Keyword(s):  
Political Institutions ◽  
Le Corbusier ◽  
Sao Paulo ◽  
Maurice Blanchot ◽  
São Paulo ◽  
Short Text ◽  
Self Reflection ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
Aesthetic Politics ◽  
Cultural Movement

Abstract Cannibalism is one of the most recognisable taboos of the West and a benchmark with which a supposedly civilised world has traditionally sought to differentiate itself from the radically “other” of the hinterlands. As such, cannibalism has made its way both into the vocabulary of the West’s pseudo-ethnographic self-reflection (e.g. Freud) and the imaginary of its literary culture (e.g. Grimm). A less-well-known strain in this narrative uses cannibalism as a critical postcolonial metaphor. In 1928, the Brazilian poet and agitator Oswald de Andrade published a short text entitled “Anthropophagic Manifesto.” The aim of the manifesto was to distance an emerging Brazilian modernism from the European ideals that the São Paulo bourgeoisie uncritically embraced, and to synthesise more avant-garde ideas with aspects from the cultures of the indigenous Amazonian peoples into a truly national cultural movement. This essay draws on various aspects of the anthropophagic movement and seeks to understand, whether (and how) it influenced Brazilian urban planning and architecture, and especially if it is detectable in the ways in which architects Lúcio Costa and Oscar Niemeyer designed and executed the legal and political institutions in Brasília, the country’s iconic federal capital. The ana-lysis, however, identifies a colonialist inclination in Costa and Niemeyer’s ideological debt to Le Corbusier. Instead, the radical potential of anthropophagic architecture is developed with reference to the less-known São Paulo architect and polymath Flávio de Carvalho whose aesthetic politics provide parallels with contemporary radical politics, as well. The essay suggests that such a notion of politics would be akin to a radical anti-instrumentalism that I have elsewhere, following Georges Bataille and Maurice Blanchot, called a “politics of the impossible.”

scholarly journals Esquema de Lucio Costa

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Otília Beatriz Fiori Arantes
Keyword(s):  
Buenos Aires ◽  
Le Corbusier ◽  
Sao Paulo ◽  
São Paulo ◽  
Palabras Clave ◽  
El Sistema

En este ensayo - escrito especialmente para el Revista Block, de la Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Buenos Aires, 1999 (reproducido parcialmente, tres años después, en el periódico Folha de São Paulo, ver facsímil en este sitio, “Resumo de Lucio Costa”) -, Otilia Arantes retoma y desarrolla el argumento principal de otro texto, publicado en la propia Folha, el 12 de abril de 1996, en una reseña del libro Registro de uma vivência, reproducido, con algunas modificaciones, en Sentido da Formação (Paz e Terra, 1997, pág. también reproducido en este sitio). Es preciso señalar que  Lucio habría contado la historia de la arquitectura brasileña desde el punto de vista de una arquitectura ya "formada" y que "funcionó", en el sentido de haber sido completada en un breve período de tiempo, que va desde el Ministerio de Educación hasta los edificios de Pampulha o hasta el Pabellón de Exposiciones de Nueva York, aunque la meta será Brasilia. Desde las manifestaciones individuales hasta el sistema, menos de dos décadas: un aparato realmente impresionante, especialmente por la experiencia técnica demostrada. Un “Milagro” que dejaría perplejos a los críticos extranjeros. La formación como parte del sistema cultural brasileño, tal como la utilizan Antonio Candido en Formação da Literatura Brasileira (y Caio Prado y Celso Furtado en Formação Econômica), se trata, por tanto, de la formación nacional, en el marco de la herencia colonial siempre presente que hay que superar. Al mismo tiempo, como país dependiente, la afluencia externa sigue siendo preponderante, de tal manera que su actualización también revela el desajuste en su origen. Desajuste histórico, que en la Arquitectura brasileña se traduciría en un cierto formalismo, cuyo sesgo estetizador terminaría, paradójicamente, revelando en la periferia la verdad en la matriz de la Arquitectura Moderna, su falso fondo por así decirlo. Como puede verse, Lucio Costa, historiador y gran protagonista de esta historia, es quizás quien mejor resume las contradicciones e ilusiones del propio Proyecto Moderno. Al mismo tiempo, su trayectoria y la interpretación que realiza la autora  es la clave principal de la lectura que hace del Movimiento Moderno. Palabras clave: Lucio Costa, Oscar Niemeyer, Le Corbusier, Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes, Arquitectura Moderna, Arquitectura Brasileña, Brasilia, Historia de la Arquitectura, Educación, Mário Pedrosa, Antonio Candido.

scholarly journals A arquitetura das primeiras casas modernistas de São Paulo

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 77
Author(s):  
Rogério Novakoski
Keyword(s):  
Le Corbusier ◽  
Sao Paulo ◽  
São Paulo ◽  
Frank Lloyd Wright

Em um período que o país buscava a sua identidade nacional, novos arquitetos paulistanos, como Henrique Mindlin, Gregori Warchavchik, Rino Levi, João Vilanova Artigas, entre outros, mostravam o impulso de inserir propostas arquitetônicas vanguardistas, influenciadas, principalmente, pela estética orgânica de Frank Lloyd Wright e pelo design progressista de Le Corbusier. No entanto, essa geração de arquitetos teve a resistência da burguesia conservadora, que enxergava o modelo tradicional da residência como símbolo de poder perante a sociedade. Assim, este trabalho, através de uma metodologia de pesquisa bibliográfica e documental, pautada em levantamentos e estudos de trabalhos nas áreas de Arquitetura, Urbanismo e Sociologia, fotografias, desenhos técnicos e visitas a residências de grande importância histórica, faz uma análise das características arquitetônicas das primeiras residências modernistas da burguesia paulistana, em seus aspectos plásticos e funcionais, observando a mescla das novas ideias do século XX com elementos tradicionais ecléticos europeus e neocoloniais.

scholarly journals Anthropophagic Affairs: Le Corbusier, Paulo Prado and New World Revolutions

2021 ◽  
pp. 62
Author(s):  
Daniela Ortiz dos Santos
Keyword(s):  
New World ◽  
Le Corbusier ◽  
Sao Paulo ◽  
São Paulo ◽  
Capital Social

<div data-canvas-width="168.6432">Este artículo explora la relación entre Le Corbusier y el continente americano. Propongo como enfoque principal, una investigación de sus percepciones previas al viaje transatlántico de 1929. En los años veinte, la visión de América creada por Le Corbusier, se extendió mucho más allá de la esfera estadounidense. Tuvieron influencia en sus representaciones, imaginarios e imágenes del nuevo mundo sus conexiones en el ámbito intelectual, político y artístico franco-brasileño. Los resultados de este trabajo muestran que existía una amplia red de contactos formada por diversos actores, con los cuales Le Corbusier compartía admiración y afinidades. Entre ellos, se destacó el empresario brasileño Paulo Prado como protagonista, quien tuvo influencia directa en la estadía de Le Corbusier en Brasil, involucrándole en ponencias y en proyectos residenciales. Las ideas de Prado sobre la modernización de São Paulo y su participación en el campo intelectual del modernismo brasileño y de la antropofagia -cuyo nombre más destacado es el de Oswald de Andrade-, hacen del empresario una figura relevante, a pesar de poco conocido. Prado no solo fue un simple mecenas responsable por financiar el movimiento antropofágico y los cruces transatlánticos de artistas, sino que su capital social, político e intelectual fue de vital importancia para los intercambios económicos y culturales entre Europa y Brasil, en los años de entreguerras. Es así como Prado toma una especial importancia, por primera vez, para los estudios de Le Corbusier y las Américas. Con estas nuevas líneas de investigación y periodización, a partir de los encuentros entre Prado y Le Corbusier, se abre una nueva narrativa histórica en los estudios sobre las relaciones entre el arquitecto y una elite dispuesta a crear un fresco interés en la economía cultural del de la escena transatlántica.</div>

Architecture in 20th-Century Brazil

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fernando Luiz Lara
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Le Corbusier ◽  
Sao Paulo ◽  
Medium Size ◽  
São Paulo ◽  
Urban Centers ◽  
Double Standards ◽  
Belo Horizonte ◽  
Contemporary Study

Brazilian modern architecture was widely celebrated in the 1940s and 1950s as a tropical branch of Corbusian architecture. While there is truth and depth to the influence of Le Corbusier in Brazil, the architecture of this country is much more than simply an application of his principles to a warmer climate. Moreover, Brazilian 20th-century architecture cannot be defined only by a few decades in which their buildings coincided with and reinforce northern expectations. Many contemporary authors have explored the pervasive nature of such ethnocentrism in architectural history, which denies agency and initiative to anyone outside its intellectual borders. A more adequate analysis must give proper emphasis to Brazilian architects’ motivations and agency, exploring in their main buildings how they struggled to express themselves and their societal aspirations by skillfully manipulating a formal and spatial vocabulary of international modernity. A contemporary study of Brazilian 20th-century architecture would not be worthy of its title if it did not address similar double standards that have been applied domestically. It is paramount to understand that the influence of modernism in the built environment reached way beyond the well-known centers of Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, and its manifestations go way beyond the high modernism of the 1940s and 50s. The ethnocentrism of the global North Atlantic repeats itself in Brazil, with the architectures of Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo overshadowing all others. If Brazilian architecture in general is not well known, notwithstanding its extraordinary achievements, still less known are the buildings erected in Recife, Porto Alegre, Belo Horizonte, and Salvador, to mention only four other major urban centers, or the hundreds of buildings in medium-size cities with as much quality and intentionality as those of Rio and São Paulo.

Seasonal Variation of Suicide in the City of São Paulo, Brazil, 1996–2010

Crisis ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Hideki Bando ◽  
Fernando Madalena Volpe
Keyword(s):  
Seasonal Pattern ◽  
Total Sample ◽  
Sao Paulo ◽  
Seasonal Patterns ◽  
São Paulo ◽  
Health Statistics ◽  
Males And Females ◽  
June July ◽  
The City ◽  
Over Time

Background: In light of the few reports from intertropical latitudes and their conflicting results, we aimed to replicate and update the investigation of seasonal patterns of suicide occurrences in the city of São Paulo, Brazil. Methods: Data relating to male and female suicides were extracted from the Mortality Information Enhancement Program (PRO-AIM), the official health statistics of the municipality of São Paulo. Seasonality was assessed by studying distribution of suicides over time using cosinor analyses. Results: There were 6,916 registered suicides (76.7% men), with an average of 39.0 ± 7.0 observed suicides per month. For the total sample and for both sexes, cosinor analysis estimated a significant seasonal pattern. For the total sample and for males suicide peaked in November (late spring) with a trough in May–June (late autumn). For females, the estimated peak occurred in January, and the trough in June–July. Conclusions: A seasonal pattern of suicides was found for both males and females, peaking in spring/summer and dipping in fall/winter. The scarcity of reports from intertropical latitudes warrants promoting more studies in this area.

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