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'Brazil builds' and the construction of a modern, in the Brazilian architecture.

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Author(s):
Eduardo Augusto Costa
Total Authors: 1
Document type: Master's Dissertation
Institution: Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas
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Examining board members:
Jose Tavares Correia de Lira; Silvana Barbosa Rubino
Advisor: Iara Lis Franco Schiavinatto
Abstract

This Master's dissertation aims to understand one of the most important works published about a Brazilian modern architecture. Publication accomplished by the MoMA/NY, in 1943, entitled Brazil Builds it was responsible for the foundation of a historiographic matrix for the Brazilian architecture, vinculating the traditional architecture with the modern architects. It is also about the dimensioning of the national culture in the first half of the 20th century, specifically related to the national cultural politics taken by the minister Gustavo Capanema, during the New Republic and its influence to the architecture. Finally, it talks about the construction of a visual culture to the architecture by a series of visual documents done by photographers, amongst who G. E. Kidder Smith stands out. Visual culture that was intended as an order of the national culture, in this case, order of a Brazilian modern architectural culture (AU)