CINVA Connections Brazil-Argentina: Vautier and the issue of rural housing

• Grant number: 25/00776-6
• Support Opportunities: Research Grants - Visiting Researcher Grant - International
• Start date: October 28, 2025
• End date: December 04, 2025
• Field of knowledge: Applied Social Sciences - Architecture and Town Planning - Fundamentals of Architecture and Urbanism
• Principal Investigator: Nilce Cristina Aravecchia Botas
• Grantee: Nilce Cristina Aravecchia Botas
• Visiting researcher: Rosa Milagros Aboy
• Visiting researcher institution: Universidad De Buenos Aires/Uba, Argentina
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo (FAU). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

The visit of Professor Rosa Milagros Aboy takes place within the framework of the FAPESP Regular Research Project "Habitação e desenvolvimento na América Latina: o Centro Interamericano de Vivienda y Planeamiento (CINVA) como zona transnacional" (Process Nº 2022/07404-9). Revisiting the ambition of conducting a history that is "transnational" in scope, the presence of the Visiting Researcher proves to be of utmost relevance, both for the analysis and interpretation of sources and for the methodological and conceptual debates surrounding the themes developed within the scope of the aforementioned Project.The project "Conexões CINVA Brasil-Argentina: Vautier e a questão da habitação rural" focuses on the work of Argentine architect Ernesto Vautier as the organizer and head of the Rural Section of CINVA. This architect's contributions were pivotal in elevating the rural housing issue to a position of great significance within the inter-American institution. Simultaneously, his personal trajectory exemplifies how certain actors were crucial in establishing the flow of ideas foundational to the formation of the planning field in Latin America. Emerging from the Argentine modernist movement, Vautier played a fundamental role in developing CINVA's methodologies for action in rural environments. In Brazil, he coordinated the I Regional Course on Rural Housing, a pioneering event held at the Universidade Federal de Viçosa, made possible through a partnership between the inter-American institution and the Associação Brasileira de Crédito e Assistência Rural. The ongoing research, supported by a Regular Grant, as well as the specific research of doctoral candidate Beatriz Barsoumian de Carvalho, also supported by FAPESP, has examined the report of the I Regional Course on Rural Housing in Viçosa, a document found in the FAU-USP Library. During her stay as a visiting scholar, Professor Rosa Aboy is expected to contribute to the definition of themes and related methodologies for further exploration of this Library's archives, specifically documents related to the former Centro de Pesquisa e Estudos Urbanísticos (CPEU). This archive contains a series of final CINVA reports and informational supplements from the inter-American institution covering the years 1959 to 1967.The project also ties into ongoing research conducted by other students in the research group, such as doctoral candidate Juliana Silva Ramos, with her study "Bouwcentrum na América Latina (1958-1982): Transmissão de Conhecimento, do ICB aos Centros de Informação" (FAPESP Process Nº 2024/11322-3); and undergraduate student Matheus Bonini Machado, with his study "Interfaces rural-urbano na América Latina: um olhar para o diálogo CINVA-SUDENE" (FAPESP Process Nº 2022/13324-8).The Visiting Researcher will also participate in various events, details of which are outlined in the activity plan attached to the request. Highlights include participation in the III Seminário Internacional Investigação CINVA, the offering of the course "Habitação e Planejamento na América Latina", the curation workshop for the exhibition "CAMPO, CIDADE E (SUB)DESENVOLVIMENTISMOS: São Paulo, território latino-americano", involvement in the postgraduate program course at FAU-USP "Cultura, Arquitetura e Cidade na América Latina", attendance at work meetings with other researchers involved in the project, and participation in discussions held during meetings of the research group "Cultura, Arquitetura e Cidade na América Latin" (CACAL). (AU)