Cities in contrast. New Babylon and Brasilia in the years of 1950 and 1960.

Author(s)

Marina Freire da Cunha Vianna

• Document type: Master's Dissertation
• Press: São Paulo.
• Institution: Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Escola de Comunicações e Artes (ECA/SBD)
• Defense date: 2011-09-23

Examining board members

Maria Cristina Machado Freire; Agnaldo Aricê Caldas Farias; Cibele Saliba Rizek

• Advisor: Maria Cristina Machado Freire

Abstract

This masters thesis approaches the relationship between architecture, art, city and utopia in the years 1950 and 1960 from the exercise of mutual comparison of two conceptions of the city raised in this time interval. The new city, Brasilia, designed by Brazilian architect Lucio Costa to be the modern capital of Brazil and the fictional city, New Babylon, created by Dutch artist Constant Nieuwenhuys as a refusal to existing models of cities. What are the possible relationships between them? What they say about the years in question? The thesis seeks to offer some guidelines to these questions. (AU)

• FAPESP's process: 09/04988-5 - Cities in contrast. New Babylon and Brasilia in the years of 1950 and 1960.
• Grantee: Marina Freire da Cunha Vianna
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master