on Renato Anelli
Dates: May 13th, 20th, 27th, June 03rd, 10th, 17th, 24th and July 01st
Mondays
Hour: 19h to 21h
Duration: 08 meetings
Audience: general interested parties
Investment: R $ 640,00
Online course
Live, via video conferencing platform
Recorded classes available for a limited time only
Course includes certificate at the end
The course addresses the process of formation and evolution of modern Brazilian architecture, placing it within the historical context of the country's modernization from the Abolition of Slavery and the Proclamation of the Republic to the present day. The method of interpreting the meaning of this architecture is used through the analysis of the form and procedures that generated it, considering the specific historical moment in which it developed. The narratives of art, architecture and society intertwine to explain the process of formation of architecture as a representative system of Brazilian culture. Thus, topics such as architectural design, construction, use, urban integration and their relationship with the visual arts, cinema and theater will be discussed. Architecture is understood as an integral part of the culture that shapes a country, both symbolically and materially.
Agenda
Class 1 – Modernism and Modernization
Introductory class to the course, developing Marshal Berman's conceptualization presented in his book “Everything that is solid falls apart in the air” (1986), based on Adrian Gorelik's interpretation in “The modern in debate: city, modernity, modernization” (1999 ) and Marta Gutman in “Teaching Marshal / Marshal teaching: Encounters with Berman” (2016).
The class starts from the interpretation of the painting “La Gare Saint-Lazare” by Claude Monet (1877) and the entrances to the Metro stations designed by Hector Guimard (1900) to discuss the role of art and architecture in productive, social and political modernization of the XNUMXth century.
Class 2 – Colonial rhetoric in the Republic: social modernization and the dilemmas of national identity
Focusing on the first Republic, the class discusses the recovery of the colonial past as the root of nationality in culture. It addresses the social and productive modernization of Brazil through urban infrastructures and the neoclassical architecture of Ramos de Azevedo. Explores the interpretation of colonial architecture in the research of José Wasth Rodrigues and José Mariano guided by neocolonialism. Analyzes the synthesis between modern, archaic and natural landscape in the paintings of Tarsila do Amaral. Debate Mário de Andrade and Oswaldo de Andrade's position on the modern in architecture, such as the arrival of Gregori Warchavichik's modernist houses.
Class 3 – Construction of modern national identity and hegemony of national state representation
The class starts from the simultaneous exhibition of Warchavchik's Casa Modernista with the launch of the Plan of Avenues for São Paulo by Prestes Maia and the Revolution of 1930. It presents the construction of modern national identity through Lúcio Costa, highlighting the role of the integration of the arts in architecture. Analyzes modern plastic arts, with an emphasis on national and social themes by artists such as Portinari, Di Cavalcanti and Bruno Giorgi. This process culminates in two projects by Oscar Niemeyer that elevate him to the central focus of modern Brazilian architecture: the Brazilian Pavilion at the New York World's Fair, co-authored with Lúcio Costa (1939) and Pampulha (1942). The exhibition “Brazil Builds: architecture new and old”, promoted by MoMA in 1943, consolidates this trend, presenting it as an international reference of hope in the midst of the destruction of the Second World War.
Class 4 – Modern architecture as an instrument of economic and social modernization in Brazil and Latin America: Internalization and internationalization
The class presents the active role of modern Brazilian architecture in the modernization of the country, designing factories, housing complexes, public school networks and health equipment in the effort to build a state of social welfare for a population that was rapidly urbanizing. Explores the concretist and neoconcretist movements in the visual arts and their relationship with the new parameters of architecture. It highlights the strong presence of Brazilian modern architecture abroad, in countries such as Venezuela, the United States and Germany, through the works of Oscar Niemeyer, Rino Levi and Roberto Burle Marx.
Class 5 – Brasília and Salvador: two faces of developmentalism in Brazil
It analyzes the design and construction of Brasília as the synthesis of the political and cultural project of Brazilian modernism. Discusses the role of the University of Bahia and the Museum of Modern Art of Bahia in the regional development plan for the Northeast, proposed by Lina Bo Bardi and artists from the region. Highlights the Northeast ethnographic research conducted by Lina together with Livio Xavier in Ceará and Francisco Brennand. Brasília and Salvador present themselves as two paths for the relationship between culture and economy, which could be complementary, if the 1964 military coup did not occur.
Class 6 – Between technocracy and counterculture: art, architecture and city in the “Brazilian miracle”
The class focuses on the political and cultural polarization characteristic of the authoritarian period inaugurated in March 1964. It analyzes modern and popular art movements that became radicalized in the opposition struggle, politicizing production in the visual arts, architecture, theater and music. Explores the works of Grupo Arquitetura Nova, the critical theory of Sérgio Ferro, the urbanism of favelas by Carlos Nelson Ferreira, the scenography of Flávio Império and Lina Bo Bardi. On the other hand, it discusses the exponential growth of cities and public investments in major works, which accentuated social contrasts. Modern architecture configured urban infrastructure networks, such as the São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro subways, with relevant environmental and landscape characteristics.
Class 7 – Modern and post-modern in redemocratization
It addresses the critical review of the modern movement that began in Europe and the United States in the 1950s, which reached Brazil in the 1980s. It analyzes Brazilian postmodernism in its three currents: one with a Pop bias, another with a historicist orientation and a third regionalist. Highlights the work of Severiano Mário Porto in the Amazon as the most relevant of this movement. Discusses the continuity and improvement of modern architecture, with Paulo Mendes da Rocha as its most prominent exponent at the turn of the XNUMXth century to the XNUMXst.
Class 8 – Art and modern architecture in Brasília at the center of the XNUMXst century political dispute
Explores the social inclusion policies provided by the first quartile of the 21st century and their impact on expanding the field of art and architecture. It highlights the denunciation and fight against Brazilian structural racism by black descendants of slaves and indigenous people. It analyzes the culture of the outskirts and favelas, which impose themselves by changing themes and territory in which architecture operates. It discusses the inauguration ceremony of the new president in Brasília, followed by the invasion and depredation of the palaces of the three powers by his opponents, as emblematic moments of this period.
Renato Anelli
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credits
Ibirapuera Park (2004), by Nelson Kon
