Denise Solot

SPECIAL TOPICS I

Native architecture in Brazil and in its neighboring countries. The advent of Portuguese and Spanish colonizers in Latin America. The influx of Portuguese building technology. The effects of African slavery. The French missionaries. The contributions of German and Italian immigration. Technical transformations: industrialization and the demand for artisanal continuity. Lucio Costa and critical regionalism. The triumph of ferroconcrete and its role in Brazilian architecture on the hands of Oscar Niemeyer, Affonso Reidy, among many others. The rise of Brasilia and the development of political architectural expressions. Tension between ethical and aesthetics concerns: Artigas, Mendes da Rocha, Lina Bo Bardi and the School of São Paulo. Analogies between Art and Architecture in Brazil. Architecture and landscape: Burle-Marx’s legacy. Social Architectural dilemma: the swamps and the lack of mass-housing.

Civil and religious architecture in the colonial period. The origins and development of modern architecture in Brazil, approached from the French Artistic Mission and its subsequent steps. Neoclassicism, Eclecticism, Neocolonial, Modern and Contemporary Architecture in its most significant centers, Rio, São Paulo, Recife, Belo Horizonte.

TÓPICOS ESPECIAIS EM ARQUITETURA XL

Technological and plastic experimentalism in architecture and the interrelations with continuous social, urban and environmental transformations in different historical periods and different cultures. Human aesthetic nature and Nervi’s thesis. The structural and formal phenomenological process inherent to the activity of architectural construction. The industrialization of construction: prefabrication and serial reproducibility. Industry and society. Artificial materials and the methodological process of design and construction. The great engineering works of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The rationalization of materials and construction systems and the interrelationships with the visual arts and society. Serial reproducibility and proposals for large-scale collective housing. Brazilian specificities. Aspects of the transition from industrial to post-industrial society: new design and construction techniques and new aesthetic paradigms. Study of exemplary models.

(Prerequisites: ARQ1102 and ARQ1103 or DSG1144)

The conception of architectural space in its full plastic-functional entirety from the interior. Development of interior design projects aimed at flexible and creative solutions. Applied project methodology that leads to self-criticism and the student’s design autonomy.

Individual work. Planning and development of a project relating to one of the areas of architecture and/or urbanism, or development of research work of a theoretical or experimental nature, under the supervision of a faculty advisor. Presentation and defense of the final project.