The social problem in architecture and the modernization process in São Paulo: dialogues, 1945-1965

• Grant number: 12/14550-0
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate
• Start date: December 01, 2012
• End date: April 30, 2015
• Field of knowledge: Applied Social Sciences - Architecture and Town Planning - Fundamentals of Architecture and Urbanism
• Principal Investigator: Cibele Saliba Rizek
• Grantee: Rodrigo Kamimura
• Host Institution: Instituto de Arquitetura e Urbanismo de São Carlos (IAU). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Carlos , SP, Brazil

Abstract

This thesis addresses the specialized debate among architects in the cultural realm of São Paulo, from 1945 to 1965. More specifically, it refers to the discourses focusing the "social problem" and its relationship to the referred field, punctuated by the rapid modernization process verified in the second postwar. We start from the premise that this process has released a set of energies represented mainly by a group of institutions and channels of debate, such as corporate entities, educational institutions, museums, magazines, specialized events, etc. Such instances were responsible for fostering a broad debate about the professional condition of the architect and its relationship to broader transformations taking place at that time - notably, the economic and industrial modernization and the growing country urbanization - pointing insurgent questions and proposals for its resolution. This ensemble of "social" issues led, for sometimes, the architectural discipline out of its specificity, flirting with relating areas such as economics, law, geography, engineering and social sciences, among others. Therefore, the thesis aims to investigate this process, analyzing it - in that specific context - and assessing the resulting questions of that dialogue. To do so, one starts from the survey, systematization and analysis of both the available interpretations in historiography as documental (collections, public and corporate archives, periodicals), bibliographical and primary-empirical materials (interviews), in order to confront them with the beginning hypothesis, and seeking to produce an interpretation aligned with the field of the social history of culture.

Academic Publications

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

KAMIMURA, Rodrigo. The social problem in architecture and the modernization process in São Paulo: dialogues, 1945-1965.. 2016. Doctoral Thesis - Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Escola de Engenharia de São Carlos (EESC/SBD) São Carlos.