Architecture and formative journeys throughout Brazil (1938-1962)

Author(s)

João Clark de Abreu Sodré

• Document type: Master's Dissertation
• Press: São Paulo.
• Institution: Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo (FAU/SBI)
• Defense date: 2010-05-17

Examining board members

Jose Tavares Correia de Lira; Carlos Alberto Ferreira Martins; Silvana Barbosa Rubino

• Advisor: Jose Tavares Correia de Lira

Abstract

This study deals with the possible interactions between architecture, history and ethnography through the reading of the studies, routes and road trips undertaken by architecture students throughout Brazil during their formative years in Sao Paulo. These displacements towards Brazilian culture - done either trough field trips, either through acknowledging the diverse forms of architecture, popular, colonial and modern are analyzed in the light of a long tradition of formative journeys, from the classical grand tours to the romantic, neocolonial and modernist itineraries. It focuses here in two specific experiences. The first one was undertaken in the midst of the Mission for Folkloric Research, conceived by Mario de Andrade and lead by Luiz Saia to the North and Northeast regions of the country in 1938. The second one examines the students experiences at the Architecture School in the University of São Paulo (FAU-USP), specially their activities within the local Students Board (GFAU) related to research, field trips, voyages designed to acknowledge different aspects of Brazilian culture, folklore, historical heritage as well as architecture, either colonial, modern or vernacular. (AU)