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Architecture of Brazil

1900-1990

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  • © 2013

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Authors:
  1. Hugo Segawa

    1. , Architecture and Urbanism School, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

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  • Meticulously examines the controversies, achievements, and failures in constructing spaces, buildings, and cities in a dynamic country

  • Gives a broad view of Brazilian architecture in the 20th century

  • Proposes a reinterpretation of the varied approaches of the modern movement up to the Second World War

  • Analyzes ideological impacts of important Brazilian architects including Oscar Niemeyer, Lúcio Costa and Vilanova Artigas

  • Discusses work of expatriate architects in Brazil

  • Features over 140 illustrations

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Brazil Under Urbanization 1862–1945

    • Hugo Segawa
    Pages 1-13

  3. From Anticolonial to Neocolonial Style: The Search for Some Modernity 1880–1926

    • Hugo Segawa
    Pages 15-27

  4. Programmatic Modernism 1917–1932

    • Hugo Segawa
    Pages 29-43

  5. Pragmatic Modernity 1922–1943

    • Hugo Segawa
    Pages 45-77

  6. Current Modernity 1929–1945

    • Hugo Segawa
    Pages 79-112

  7. The Affirmation of a School 1943–1960

    • Hugo Segawa
    Pages 113-143

  8. The Affirmation of a Hegemony 1945–1970

    • Hugo Segawa
    Pages 145-186

  9. Episodes of a Great and Modern Brazil 1950–1980

    • Hugo Segawa
    Pages 187-226

  10. Disarticulation and Re-articulation? 1980–1990

    • Hugo Segawa
    Pages 227-240

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 241-266
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Architecture of Brazil: 1900-1990 examines the processes that underpin modern Brazilian architecture under various influences and characterizes different understandings of modernity, evident in the chapter topics of this book. Accordingly, the author does not give overall preference to particular architects nor works, with the exception of a few specific works and architects, including Warchavchik, Niemeyer, Lucio Costa, and Vilanova Artigas.

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  • , Architecture and Urbanism School, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

    Hugo Segawa

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