The limits of architecture, urbanism and urban planning in a context of recuperative modernization: the specifics of this deadlock in the brazilian case.

Author(s)

André de Oliveira Torres Carrasco

• Document type: Doctoral Thesis
• Press: São Paulo.
• Institution: Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo (FAU/SBI)
• Defense date: 2011-05-05

Examining board members

Vera Maria Pallamin; Luiz Antonio Recaman Barros; Amelia Luisa Damiani; Erminia Terezinha Menon Maricato; Carlos de Almeida Toledo

• Advisor: Vera Maria Pallamin

Abstract

The research subject of this doctoral thesis was the crisis scenario that involves the development of architecture, urbanism and urban planning in Brazil in the period between the second half of the twentieth century and the early years of Century XXI. This finding originated in the analysis of the contradictions between the goals envisioned by the Brazilian Modern Architecture, a school that would define the course of this production, and its results. One of the main points of its central program was the defense of human emancipation through the transformation of its space. However, its production would express critical limits from the time when the characteristics assumed by the modernization of Brazil, resulting from its way of development at the present stage of capitalism, would make the desired emancipation and would have cities marked by material and social precariousness. The central hypothesis developed in this thesis deals with the relations between the critical nature - to manifest itself as a perennial state of crisis - of the architecture, urbanism and urban planning production in Brazil and the particular forms of the modernization crisis development in the country. (AU)