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Brazil Built - The Architecture of the Modern Movement in Brazil
Zilah Quezado Deckker
London, Spon Press, 2001. 254 p. ilus. ISBN 0-415-23407-7
BRAZIL BUILT is an examination of the architecture of the Modern
Movement in Brazil. In the 1940s and 1950s Brazil acquired
unprecedented prestige in the world of Modern Architecture. Brazil
was regarded as the country which had inherited the progressive
Modernism of the pre-war period in Europe, and which, furthermore,
had initiated a new phase of the assimilation of cultural and
environmental considerations. The major buildings - the Ministry of
Education, the Brazilian Pavilion at the New York World´s Fair 1939,
the Brazilian Press Association, Santos Dumont Airport, the Pampulha
Complex - became widely known and highly influential, launched by
the exhibition 'Brazil Builds' at the Museum of Modern Art, New York
in 1943 and the publication of Brazil Builds.
This book constitutes a unique presentation of the major Modern
buildings in Brazil in their historical context. Prompted by the
contemporary revaluation of Modernism, and renewed interest in
Brazil, this book examines how the buildings came into being, how
they came to be so highly regarded ant the changing reactions to
them in Brazil and abroad.
CONTENTS
Part I
Revolutions
1 Vargas, Le Corbusier, and the reinforced concrete
Part II
The Heroic Period
2 The Ministry of Education and Health Building
3 The Brazilian Pavilion at the New York World's Fair 1939
4 'A whole new school'
Part III
The Musem and the war
5 The Museum of Modern Art, New York, and architecture
6 'America for the Americans'
7 'the MUSEUM and the WAR'
Part IV
The exhibition and the book
8 The planning of the exhibition 'Brazil Builds'
9 'The Brazil Builds' exhibition
10 Brazil Builds: architecture new and old 1652-1942
Part V
The 'Brazilian Style'
11 Brazil Builds and the press
12 The 'Brazilian Style' observed
13 Le Corbusier and the 'Brazilian Style'
14 Construção Brasileira: the 'Brazilian Style' in Brazil
ZILAH QUEZADO DECKKER is an architect with MSc and PhD in
architectural history.
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