Rise of Popular Modernist Architecture in Brazil
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modernism in Brazil
modernist style
paradigmatic architecture
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- ISBN 9780813032894
- Weight: 382g
- Dimensions: 147 x 228mm
- Publication Date: 12 Sep 2008
- Publisher: University Press of Florida
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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During the mid-twentieth century, Brazil as a country seemed to be fascinated with modernism. Middle-class people would read about it in popular newspapers and journals, then go about designing their own homes in the modernist style, using distinctive layouts and facades. In other words, modernist architecture was the popular architecture of Brazil.Fernando Luiz Lara investigates how and why modern architecture became so popular in his native country, tracking the path of the dissemination as well as the economic, cultural, and political conditions that made it possible. He views it as a direct extension of the optimism and relative stability that spread throughout the country beginning in the 1950s.This original and significant contribution to the field counters the traditional historiography of modernist architecture, and has broad applicability in examining the importance of the style throughout Latin America.
Fernando Luiz Lara is assistant professor of architecture at the University of Michigan.
