ABSTRACT
Architecture has played a fundamental role within Brazilian modernity. Unequivocally modern, it didn’t carry the debris of primitivism and nationalism that so starkly characterized our painting and literature. And if Oscar Niemeyer’s architecture sublimates its material and structural efforts, the brutalism of Escola São Paulo assures a dialectical materialism, emphasizing weight instead of lightness, in a way to anticipate through form an infrastructural development of the country. As democracy was restored in Brazil, Paulo Mendes da Rocha carried out an architecture that allegorizes that intended development, testifying to its lack of historical ground. This feature allows approximations between its architecture and the sculptures of Amilcar de Castro, in which the rust transmits a mineral tardiness to its geometrical clearness, disturbing its elementary constructivism.
KEYWORDS:
Architecture; Modernism; Project; Constructivism; Brutalism