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| Author(s): |
Rodrigo Kamimura
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | São Carlos. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Escola de Engenharia de São Carlos (EESC/SBD) |
| Defense date: | 2010-04-06 |
| Examining board members: |
Luiz Antonio Recaman Barros;
Miguel Antonio Buzzar;
Cláudia Piantá Costa Cabral
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| Advisor: | Luiz Antonio Recaman Barros |
| Abstract | |
The following thesis approaches European sixties\' architectural thinking. It focuses particularly on the \"visionary\" production of Dutch Victor Nieuwenhuys (whose pseudonym was \"Constant\"), English group of architects Archigram and Italian groups of architects and designers Archizoom and Superstudio. It analyses in which point technological advance and new information/communication theories act on such architecture, producing a hybridization among concepts coming from different disciplinary fields. It evaluates, as case studies, some examples of those projections: Constant\'s project for New Babylon; Archigram\'s Plug-in City; Superstudio\'s Continuous Monument; and Archizoom\'s No-Stop City; and how they articulate the search for social and/or individual emancipation and architectural project\'s implications with the increasing affirmation of a consumption-oriented mass society. Finally, it inquiries how these proposals of fictional cities - or non-cities - relate themselves to the ongoing social, political and economic transformations, what are their implications in relation to the historic moment where they are situated and what kind of contribution they bring to the debate over real cities. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 08/03224-9 - Technology, emancipation and consumption in the architecture of the sixties: Constant, Archigram, Archizoom and Superstudio. |
| Grantee: | Rodrigo Kamimura |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Master |