Main entry:

Segre, Roberto, 1934-2013, author.

Title & Author:

Ministério da Educação e Saúde : ícone urbano da modernidade brasileira, 1935-1945 / Roberto Serge.

Publication:

São Paulo : Romano Guerra Editora, 2013.

Description:

543 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm

Notes:
"Tradução do original espanhol"--Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 516-534) and index.
Prefácio / por Luiz Fernando de Almeida -- Apresentação / por Jean-Louis Cohen -- Introdução -- O MES : catalisador de uma nova dimensão urbana no Rio moderno -- Um concurso frustrado -- Poder e arquitetura na Era Vargas : o papel de Capanema -- Lúcio Costa e a equipe de arquitetos -- Os murmúrios da "múmia" -- Le Corbusier no Rio de Janeiro (1936) : uma luz no caminho -- Os projetos do MES : praia de Santa Luzia e Castelo -- Vicissitudes do projeto definitivo : a antropofagia de Oscar Niemeyer -- Edifício e cidade no centro do Rio de Janeiro -- A monumentalidade -- Leveza, transparência e fluidez : expressões da modernidade -- Equipamento, tectônica e materialidade -- Unidade das artes maiores : clássicos e modernos -- Uma difícil sobrevivência -- A significação do MES como modelo arquitetônico e urbanístico -- Difusão, dispersão e deformação do modelo.
In Portuguese.

Summary:

A complete and detailed history of the building of the Ministrio da Educaçao e Saúde Pública "MES" (Ministry of Public Education and Health, now the Ministry of Education, Health and Culture) also known as the Capanema Palace, studied from its conception, aspects, technical characteristics and particularities, structures, functions and its artistic and aesthetic spaces. The contradictory political history of the building started when architect Le'Corbusier, a leftist as many of the European modernist architects, was invited by the government of Dictator Getulio Vargas to construct a modern public building as part of the foundation of Brazil's "Estado Novo". Le'Corbusier designed an innovative building where his audacious and creative designs included concrete walls that allowed full glass walls controlled and adjustable by Corbusian sun-shades (brises-soleil) through a system (the first of its kind in the world), tropical gardens designed by the great landscape architect Roberto Burle Marx, interior decoration by noted architect Oscar Niemeyer, murals made in the Portuguese tradition of blue and white ceramic tiles in the outside walls and large wall paintings by Cndido Portinari in the inside, public sculptures by Celso Antonio, along with commissioned works of other Brazilian artists. The main building of MES was the first modernist public building in the Americas, and the largest of anything Le'Corbusier had built until then.

ISBN:

9788588585409
8588585405

Subject:

Le Corbusier, 1887-1965 Criticism and interpretation.
Le Corbusier, 1887-1965
Brazil. Ministério da Educação e Saúde Pública Buildings.
Brazil. Ministério da Educação e Saúde Pública
Public buildings Brazil Rio de Janeiro.
Functionalism (Architecture) Brazil Rio de Janeiro.
Bâtiments publics Brésil Rio de Janeiro.
Fonctionnalisme (Architecture) Brésil Rio de Janeiro.
Buildings
Functionalism (Architecture)
Public buildings
Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) Buildings, structures, etc.
Brazil Rio de Janeiro

Form/genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 291413
Call No.: BIB 235045
Status: Available