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Museu de Arte Moderna Rio de Janeiro
The Museum of Modern Art is an architectural landmark in the city of Rio de Janeiro designed and constructed by architect Affonso Eduardo Reidy. The landscape project was a design by Burle Marx (1909-1994). Reidy's "Carioca" architectural projects followed the architectural rationalism of Le Corbusier. In the specific case of the MAM, it is worth noting the use of a hollow and transparent structure, the free plan of the exhibition space (which provided for flexibility of museography) and the attention Reidy paid to lighting. The book is a photographic account of the construction and architecture of the MAM through its three main blocks: the Bloco-Escola (School Block inaugurated in 1958), the Bloco de Exposiçoes (Exhibition Block inaugurated in 1967 with a show by Lasar Segall), and the Teatro (Theatre Block, a construction that remains unfinished) and includes a photographic essay by Vicente de Mello, a text by architect Paulo Mendes da Rocha, an essay by architect Ana Luiza Nobre, along with a Descriptive Memorial of the Project written by architect Reidy.
Modern Architecture in Latin America
Modern Architecture in Latin America: Art, Technology, and Utopia is an introductory text on the issues, polemics, and works that represent the complex processes of political, economic, and cultural modernization in the twentieth century. The number and types of projects varied greatly from country to country, but, as a whole, the region produced a significant body of architecture that has never before been presented in a single volume in any language. Modern Architecture in Latin America is the first comprehensive history of this important production. Designed as a survey and focused on key examples/paradigms arranged chronologically from 1903 to 2003, this volume covers a myriad of countri...
Encontros : Lucio Costa
"Lucio Costa was the strong arm in the implementation and development of modern architecture in Brazil. With determination, intelligence and critical spirit, he produced texts and buildings that still today are the object of admiration and polemic." (Our translation) --Verso Cover.
Towards a Dialogical History of Modern Architecture
The book challenges three perspectives on the modern architectural canon: explanations that disregard impacts and effects beyond the North Atlantic (monologic), superficial modifications that simply add "Other" figures to the canon, and views that reject the canon itself. Instead, it recognizes the canon's significance in comprehending architecture, while seeking to uncover its presumed Western-centric integrity through a shift from a monological to a dialogical approach. This approach integrates concepts of identity and Otherness as dialectically articulated and mutually interrelated. In essence, the book's main thesis contends that the canon's historiographic construction overlooked the ex...
The Long Roots of Formalism in Brazil
The present studies on Brazilian modern art seek to specify some of the dominant contradictions of capitalism’s combined but uneven development as these appear from the global ‘periphery’.
Eugenics in the Garden
As Latin American elites strove to modernize their cities at the turn of the twentieth century, they eagerly adopted the eugenic theory that improvements to the physical environment would lead to improvements in the human race. Based on Jean-Baptiste Lamarck’s theory of the “inheritance of acquired characteristics,” this strain of eugenics empowered a utopian project that made race, gender, class, and the built environment the critical instruments of modernity and progress. Through a transnational and interdisciplinary lens, Eugenics in the Garden reveals how eugenics, fueled by a fear of social degeneration in France, spread from the realms of medical science to architecture and urban...
Brazil
Brazil is a country of city dwellers undergoing radical transformation: over 85 per cent of the country’s citizens live in cities and over 40 per cent of the population live in metropolises of more than a million people. Whereas previously urban growth had been ad hoc, preparation for the FIFA World Cup in 12 cities across the country in 2014, and for the upcoming Olympic and Paralympic Games in Rio, changed all that. Several Brazilian cities have proactively invested in infrastructure and the public realm. And a number of projects by international ‘starchitects’ have heightened interest in Brazil from architects and urban practitioners abroad. The failure of public authorities to meet...
