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Pau-Brasil Culture When Lúcio Costa met Mário de Andrade, Oswald de Andrade and Tarsila do Amaral

Pau-Brasil Culture When Lúcio Costa met Mário de Andrade, Oswald de Andrade and Tarsila do Amaral

Guerra, Abilio
Lara, Fernando L.

Paperback

General ArchitectureArchitecture History

Publisher Price: $29.99

ISBN10: 1946070475
ISBN13: 9781946070470
Publisher: Nhamerica Press LLC
Published: Mar 31 2024
Pages: 414
Weight: 0.81
Height: 0.85 Width: 5.12 Depth: 7.09
Language: English

In a well-known debate with Geraldo Ferraz in 1948, Lúcio Costa argued that modern architecture as practiced in Brazil only became truly interesting when the functional grounds of this new architecture - bequeathed to us by Le Corbusier - were incorporated and developed by the national genius.

From then on - the argument goes -, we could actually be proud of an architecture that was authentically ours, deeply rooted in a tradition that went back to the colonial baroque style from Minas Gerais. Moreover, in our modern architectural production, Oscar Niemeyer played a role equivalent to that of Aleijadinho, embodying to the highest degree the latent possibilities of Brazilianness. There is much more affinity - Lúcio Costa insisted - between Oscar's work, as seen in the admirable Pampulha ensemble, and Aleijadinho's masterpiece - the church of São Francisco de Assis, in Ouro Preto - than between Oscar's work and that of Warchavchik - which is, in my view, a quite significant fact.

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