Lucio Costa era racista? : notas sobre raça colonialismo e a arquitetura moderna brasileira / ensaio de Paulo Tavares ; posfácio Roberto Conduru ; quarta capa Ana Flávia Magalhães Pinto.

Primeira edição.

São Paulo : n-1 Edições, 2022.

122 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.

In Portuguese.

In this essay Paulo Tavares interrogates the theoretical work of Lucio Costa, author of Brasília's pilot plan and influential interpreter of national formation, to question the racialized and colonial foundations of modern Brazilian architecture. One of the main artifices of national modernism, Lucio Costa's thought is marked by the presence of the racial issue and colonialism as articulators of the vision of modernity and tradition that he proposes. In confronting the writings of Lucio Costa, Paulo Tavares reviews raciality and colonialism in other agents and achievements of Brazilian modernism. He initially stops at the movement in favor of "traditional Brazilian architecture", his mentors, supporters, and sympathizers. Goes through the Semana de Arte Moderna, held in São Paulo in 1922, whose modernity included neocolonial projects of Antonio Garcia Moya e Georg Przyrembel. Addresses the work of Mário de Andrade, another monumental figure of Brazilian culture and who, like Costa, reviewed his involvement with the ideas of the neocolonial movement and joined the modernist hosts. Tavares also cites Lina Bo Bardi and her magazineHabitat. The book has the afterword "Interrogação Necessária" (Necessary Interrogation) by Roberto Conduru, and verso cover by Ana Flávia Magalhães Pinto.

Notas sobre raça colonialismo e a arquitetura moderna brasileira

Portuguese

November 21, 2023