The architecture books in Brazil of the 20th century

• Grant number: 19/09272-0
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: June 01, 2019
• End date: May 31, 2020
• Field of knowledge: Applied Social Sciences - Architecture and Town Planning - Fundamentals of Architecture and Urbanism
• Principal Investigator: Eduardo Augusto Costa
• Grantee: Marina Rigolleto
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo (FAU). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Associated research grant: 17/06571-0 - Visual culture and intellectual history: archives and collections of architecture, AP.JP

Abstract

This research aims to elaborate a broad and circumscribed lifting of the history of architecture books published in Brazil of the 20th century. It is not only about to organize these books lifting, but also to compose a referential base with technical information that can be used by researchers of architecture history, graphic design and graphic printing techniques with an organized and systematized way. In this sense, authors, publishers, institutions, cultural and publishing actions should also be highlighted, contributing to a better comprehension of the printing culture of the 20th century. Finally, from this systematization, it is intended to identify a little group of books, questioning iconography's place at discursive changes in the architecture history.