Modified Modern in the tropics
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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2317-2762.posfau.2019.155670Keywords:
Modern principles, Standardization, Façades, Postwar periodAbstract
This paper addresses Brazilian military houses projects, studied under the concept of modified modern, as employed in the United Sates during the second postwar. The concept used to designate a practice of standardization within variation applied to the construction of middle-class houses in the suburbs. The same period was marked by growing international relationships and military cooperation between Brazil and the United Sates as well as incentives to build military housing in both countries by each government. How these houses were designed? And was the modified modern culture incorporated into the Brazilian´s home front? Driven by these questions, this paper aims to develop a narrative about the practice of standardization within variation, usually overlooked in Brazil. It contributes to enlarge the modern architecture revisionist discourse by presenting different manifestations and appropriations of its language. It is also an attempt to explore a historiographic gap of a housing production developed by the government and directed to a small and selected group, however endowed of some interesting features.
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