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| Author(s): |
Felipe Anitelli
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | São Carlos. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Escola de Engenharia de São Carlos (EESC/SBD) |
| Defense date: | 2015-06-24 |
| Examining board members: |
Marcelo Claudio Tramontano;
João Sette Whitaker Ferreira;
Denise Morado Nascimento;
Lúcia Zanin Shimbo;
Flávio José Magalhães Villaça
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| Advisor: | Marcelo Claudio Tramontano |
| Abstract | |
This thesis aims to examine how the paulistano apartment building design and the practice of real estate agents from São Paulo are reference for the housing production in other regions of the country and influence the urban verticalization. This reference happens in several ways: the presence of real estate companies headquartered in São Paulo and branch offices in other considered cities, the important role that this companies had after the intensive capital input from state funds to finance housing, the interference of the most influential real estate agents, politically and economically, on the public urban and housing planning, changes in the professional practice of architects, creative process and project production changes, etc.. This new context of the Brazilian real estate market that produces apartment buildings was intensified in the 2000 decade and decisively influenced the real estate project conceptions, in the architectural quality definition of apartment buildings, in the urban insertion and location of this buildings, in the configuration of urban landscape parts, in the increase production of this urban verticalization and increase acquisition of this apartments, etc.. Results of this context, the mega-projects are one of the most important real estate products found. Mega-projects are highly standardized designs, they use a outdated spatial configuration that organizes apartments with small areas and located in outskirt areas. Five Brazilian cities was studied, all of them important capitals of different geopolitical regions: Recife (PE), Porto Alegre (RS), Belém (PA), Goiânia (GO), Belo Horizonte (MG). This work has extensive field research with five academic trips, lasting two months each, in all mentioned cities. Dozens of academic visits to the main neighborhoods with recently verticalization were done, hundreds of real estate projects and thousands of apartment buildings was collected. 79 interviews with real estate agents, architects and academic researchers also were done. This context contributes to explain the most dramatic consequences of capitalist culture in the twenty-first century that come from particular real estate production. Also shows more precisely the role of the architecture and the architect in current Brazilian society. (AU) | |