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| Author(s): |
Sabrina Studart Fontenele Costa
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: | 2010-11-22 |
| Examining board members: |
Regina Maria Prosperi Meyer;
Maria Arminda do Nascimento Arruda;
Candido Malta Campos Neto;
Luis Antonio Jorge;
Silvana Barbosa Rubino
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| Advisor: | Regina Maria Prosperi Meyer |
| Abstract | |
This dissertation reveals how the modern architecture of downtown São Paulo developed new functions for ground floors, setting up an intense relationship between the building and the urban space. The analyzed structures built between the 1930s and 1960s were linked closely with the implementation of the Avenues Plan, with its specific legal provisions and urban plan. The construction of a new urban landscape took place during the first half of the twentieth century in the lots adjacent to the Republic Square, as a result of both public and private investments. Private enterprise was given incentives to respect the urban plan by linking building permits for taller structures with the intended architectural design. The scale of the resulting urban transformation, including the opening and expansion of new roads and the vertical growth of the downtown, influenced decisively the relationship between the street and the edifice and lead to the emergence of new currents in architecture. This dissertation discusses the urban plan, legal provisions, cultural aspects, and architectural projects associated with a period of great importance in the history of São Paulo in order to reveal the essential relationships between individual structures and the broader urban context in which they appeared. (AU) | |