Main entry:

Arquitetura moderna brasileira. English.

Title & Author:

Brazil's modern architecture / [edited by] Elisabetta Andreoli & Adrian Forty ; [translated by Michael Asbury, Ana Carneiro, Daniel Marcus].

Publication:

London ; New York : Phaidon, 2004.

Description:

239 pages : illustrations (some color), plans (some color) ; 30 cm

Notes:
Translation of: Arquitetura moderna brasileira.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 230-235) and index.
Introduction : round trip : Europe to Brazil & back / Adrian Forty & Elisabetta Andreoli -- Doomed to modernity / by Guilherme Wisnik -- Tropical tectonics / by Roberto Conduru -- High-speed urbanisation / by Luiz Recaman -- The modern Brazilian house / by João Masao Kamita -- Reinventing the building site / by Pedro Fiori Arantes -- Recent works : case studies / by Adrian Forty & Elisabetta Andreoli.

Summary:

"This book is the most comprehensive survey and analysis of Brazilian modern architecture to date, written by a young generation of Brazilian architects and historians for an international audience. Examining the works from the 'inside', and with different critical perspectives, they offer new and compelling readings of the country's architecture. Discussing the works of Oscar Niemayer and Lucio Costa, as well as those by less known but equally respected architects such as Affonso Eduardo Reidy, Vilanova Artigas and Jorge Machado Moreira, they show how modernist ideals were incorporated into a country with a legacy of contrasts and contradictions. The nation that saw the creation of of Brasilia, one of the most utopian projects of the Modern Movement, also witnessed the formation of its built environment at one of the fastest rates in the world, while large parts of the population still lived in precarious accommodation." "Charting post-Brasilia developments, Brazil's Modern Architecture describes how architects today have adapted to the conditions of an increasingly polarized society by developing new strategies that are no less creative, even if sometimes less demonstrative. Illustrated with drawings, historical black and white, and new colour photographs, it also portrays the recent works of young practices, such as MMBB Arquitetos and Una Arquitetos, through a series of case studies."--Jacket.

Resources:
Table of contents
Table of contents

ISBN:

0714842923 (hbk.)
9780714842929 (hbk.)

Subject:

Costa, Lúcio 1902-1998
Niemeyer, Oscar 1907-2012
Reidy, Affonso Eduardo 1909-1964
Architecture Brazil 20th century.
Architecture Brésil 20e siècle.
21.62 history of architecture.
Architecture
Architektur
Architecture brésilienne.
Brazil
Brasilien

Form/genre:

History

Added entries:

Andreoli, Elisabetta.
Forty, Adrian, 1948-

Holdings:

Location: Library main 234176
Call No.: NA855.B739 2004
Status: Available