Modern Architecture in Campinas: the Itatiaia building

Authors

  • Roberto Silva Leme Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Campinas
  • Ivone Salgado Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Campinas

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.1984-4506.v0i9p22-34

Keywords:

modern architecture, brazilian architecture, collective housing.

Abstract

This article contemplates the study of several apartment buildings in Campinas throughout a period in which architecture had as its characteristic the same language as Modern Architecture. When analyz-ing this architectural production, we try to set its context within the city’s urban legislation and the role played by the only work by Oscar Niemeyer in the city, the Itatiaia building. Beyond their intention to be portrayed as modern, other architectural attempts in this period show an ideal to pursuit rather than the actual condition of being modern, which only the production by Oscar Niemeyer can ever achieve. This article seeks to reveal how unique this building is in such background by inserting it in its place in the history of the Brazilian architecture.

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Author Biographies

  • Roberto Silva Leme, Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Campinas
    Mestrando pelo Programa de Mestrado em Urbanismo do Centro de Ciências Exatas, Ambientais e de Tecnologia da Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Campinas, Avenida Júlio de Mesquita, 983, apto 71, CEP 13025-061, Cambuí, Campinas, (19) 3252-8435.
  • Ivone Salgado, Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Campinas
    Arquiteta e urbanista, professora titular da Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo da Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Campinas. Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Campinas, Curso de Mestrado em Urbanismo, Rodovia D. Pedro I , Km 136, Jd Santa Cândida, CEP 13020-904, Campinas, SP, (19) 3756-7077.

Published

2009-01-01

Issue

Section

Papers and Essays

How to Cite

Leme, R. S., & Salgado, I. (2009). Modern Architecture in Campinas: the Itatiaia building. Risco - Journal of Architecture and Urbanism, 9, 22-34. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.1984-4506.v0i9p22-34