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| Author(s): |
Marianna Ramos Boghosian Al Assal
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo (FAU/SBI) |
| Defense date: | 2014-12-16 |
| Examining board members: |
Ana Lucia Duarte Lanna;
Cristina Meneguello;
Joana Mello de Carvalho e Silva
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| Advisor: | Ana Lucia Duarte Lanna; Maria Helena Rolim Capelato |
| Abstract | |
In the late 1930, more specifically between 1937 and 1940, the Brazilian State represented itself internationally with the construction of official national pavilions on four great Worlds Fairs: the Exposition Internationale des Arts and Techniques dans la Vie Moderne (Paris, 1937); the New York World\'s Fair (1939-1940), the Golden Gate International Exposition (San Francisco , 1939-1940,) and the Exposição do Mundo Português (Lisbon, 1940). Coming from a tradition of nearly a century of World\'s Fair, there were some particularities in the international political scenario in which these events took place: the decade of 1930 was characterized by economic crises on a global scale, by the strength of nationalist speeches, by the rise in its more tender and most terrible aspects of the so-called policy of masses and, in its later years, by the beginning of World War II. Either the Brazilian national scenario of the decade of 1930 would be peaceful, marked by instability, the rise to power of Getúlio Vargas and finally the coup that would begin the dictatorial period of the Estado Novo. This thesis discusses the idealization, architectural conception and implementation of these Worlds Fairs as well as the Brazilian participation in these processes drawing attention to the architectural and political context of the period. The aim is to understand the connections and circuits of negotiation, reference and dispute in which the decisions in architectural specific field related with the multiple scales of power and political projects in the conformation of these spaces of representation. (AU) | |