Technology, emancipation and consumption in the architecture of the sixties: Constant, Archigram, Archizoom and Superstudio.

• Grant number: 08/03224-9
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master
• Start date: September 01, 2008
• End date: January 31, 2010
• Field of knowledge: Applied Social Sciences - Architecture and Town Planning - Fundamentals of Architecture and Urbanism
• Principal Investigator: Luiz Antonio Recaman Barros
• Grantee: Rodrigo Kamimura
• Host Institution: Escola de Engenharia de São Carlos (EESC). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Carlos , SP, Brazil

Abstract

The intention of this research is to analyze the questions about utopia and technology in 1960's decade architecture. To achieve it, one begins from English group Archigram and Situationist International production, focusing more specifically on contents related to the debate about architecture and city. It aims, also, to study how the concept of utopia associated to technology reports to a broader historic panorama - in a different manner from the same approach occurred in the thirties -, analyzing this question together with the 1968 events and the confluence of its reverberations in the project for Beaubourg, understood as a practical model for public policy and cultural affirmation.

Academic Publications

(References retrieved automatically from State of São Paulo Research Institutions)

KAMIMURA, Rodrigo. Technology, emancipation and consumption in the architecture of the sixties: Constant, Archigram, Archizoom and Superstudio. 2010. Master's Dissertation - Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Escola de Engenharia de São Carlos (EESC/SBD) São Carlos.