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Attempts at rooting: Brazilian architecture and nation-building

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Author(s):
Francisco Sales Trajano Filho
Total Authors: 1
Document type: Doctoral Thesis
Press: São Carlos.
Institution: Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Escola de Engenharia de São Carlos (EESC/SBD)
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Examining board members:
Telma de Barros Correia; Maria Stella Martins Bresciani; José Tavares Correia de Lira; Carlos Alberto Ferreira Martins; Otavio Leonidio Ribeiro
Advisor: Telma de Barros Correia
Abstract

This study is designed as an attempt to unravel a glance on Brazilian architecture from the discursive strategies put in their way in the process of objectification. More specifically interested in questioning the discourses and representations between the mid-nineteenth century and the 1930s was developed around the topic of architectural identity, inextricable from questions of national training in the broadest sense of this idea, cultural, racial, historical, and who performed at certain times and under certain contingencies as legitimate interpretations of what is \"national\", \"Brazilian\", \"own\" and \"peculiar\" in architecture, thus seeking to ensure them a privileged place of enunciation. To this end, we consider an approach and fruitful discussions in the architectural field to those conducted on the issue of nation and national identity from the perspective of research of the dialogues, landslides and conceptual overlaps between architecture and Brazilian social thought on issues such as nation, identity Influence of environment, race, Portuguese heritage, etc. Operating productively a research based on recognition of superposes, dialogues, conceptual and theoretical affinities between, on the one hand, a disciplinary field consisting of elements like architecture, manipulating formal languages within a universe of possibilities, and on the other hand, the vast and rich intellectual production of sawn of anxieties, architects, engineers, artists, historians, social thinkers, etc., about the \"Brazilian\" nation-building in the heart of the theoretical and conceptual tangle resulting can glimpse the centrality that wisdom of an identity formed historically occupied in reflections on the nation. (AU)