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| Author(s): |
Diogo Augusto Mondini Pereira
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo (FAU/SBI) |
| Defense date: | 2020-07-03 |
| Examining board members: |
Gil Garcia de Barros;
Eneida de Almeida;
Cesar Shundi Iwamizu
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| Advisor: | Gil Garcia de Barros; Artur Simões Rozestraten |
| Abstract | |
This master research proposes a critical evaluation about the projects and works of bus terminals in Brazil during the 1960s and 1970s decades. The elected temporal cut, further than a period of great road expansion in the country, in which the bus terminals stands as an urban reflect of this nationwide transformation, frames two opposite movements: in one hand the construction of Brasília, with its bus terminal, called Road Platform, in strategic central position, representing the central square of the city; in other hand the deactivation of São Paulo\'s bus terminal in central Luz district in the early years of 1980s, meaning therefore the transfer of long distance bus services to more peripheral areas such as Barra Funda, Vila Guilherme and Jabaquara districts, in structures secluded from street level and regular urban life. In several architectures of the appointed period, the public trace and the building\'s integration within the city\'s structure and urban life are characteristic of the modernist thought and its desire of social and spatial integration. Following such logic a modest program as the bus station could turn into a significant, sometimes monumental, building, which became an urban icon in many cases. It was precisely in this period that important examples of bus terminals were built such as the above-mentioned Brasília\'s bus terminal (the Road Platform) and Jau\'s bus terminal designed by important Brazilian modernist architects: Lucio Costa and Vilanova Artigas, respectively. There are also several other examples of modernist bus terminals from the 1960s and 1970s, sometimes anonymous, within Brazilian cities from diverse sizes and regions. This research intends a critical study about the representations and imaginaries of such architectures in Brazil, identifying the notable examples, the similarities and disparities within the program and the investigation of possible imaginaries of modern country that follows such constructions. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 18/07124-0 - Brazilian bus stations between 1960s and 1970s: representations and imaginaries of a modern country |
| Grantee: | Diogo Augusto Mondini Pereira |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Master |