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| Author(s): |
Victor Piedade de Prospero
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: | 2024-03-08 |
| Examining board members: |
José Tavares Correia de Lira;
Marcos Francisco Napolitano de Eugênio;
Ana Luiza de Souza Nobre;
Patrício Del Real;
Joana Mello de Carvalho e Silva
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| Advisor: | José Tavares Correia de Lira |
| Abstract | |
The so-called Paulista architecture emerged as a recognizable identity in the early 1960s, but it was mainly during the Brazilian military dictatorship (1964-1985) that it established itself. This research seeks to understand the links and conflicts between aesthetics and politics, as well as the impasses of that professional field at the period. Important nuances and shifts appear when we overcome the approach to the dictatorship simply as background, or through narratives anchored only in the social memory built by the periods actors themselves, or even from a reading of them through the dual lens of resistance-collaboration. We propose, therefore, to look at the complexity of this historical moment through the different forms of intervention, response, adaptation, insertion, or accommodation that architects found in a context of intense repression combined with unprecedented economic growth and a construction industry boom. Current narratives usually approach the civil-military coup of 1964 as a break for an architectural approach that was settling itself. The following two decades, however, seem to demonstrate otherwise, either by the permanence and spread of technical and aesthetic procedures that were consolidated at the beginning of that decade, or by the quantitative leap in commissions that mobilized such know-how. If it is true that the expectations of social transformation attached to that new aesthetics were indeed interrupted, we can also affirm thatbased on authoritarianism and increasing inequalitiesthe productive forces development was only intensified. The architects rationali- zation and planning wills were somehow put into practice, exposing contradictions inherent to the modernization stakes that motivated them. Beyond stating or denouncing a contradictory picture, we propose here to read the ambivalences in concrete achievements of the period, between public and private commissionsunions, military barracks, clubs, terminals, dams, administrative headquarters, bank agencies, and office towersthat mobilized this particular aesthetic and, together with it, a symbolic apparatus in dispute. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 19/06245-1 - Design and avant-garde at impasse: architecture, aesthetics and politics in São Paulo From 1964 to 1976 |
| Grantee: | Victor Piedade de Prospero |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate (Direct) |