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Receção e comentário sobre a cultura arquitetónica moderna brasileira em Portugal. Uma breve análise a partir de duas publicações periódicas de arquitetura

2023; CEACT/UAL- Centro de Estudos de Arquitectura, Cidade e Território da Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa; Volume: 23; Linguagem: Inglês

10.26619/2182-4339/23.5

2182-4339

Pedro Castelo,

Architecture, Modernity, and Design

This article focuses on the exchanges of modern architectural culture that took place from the mid-20th century onwards between South America, particularly Brazil, and Portugal.This brief analysis will be based on the elements that constituted the reception and dissemination of this same culture in various specialised publications, particularly through the periodicals that existed at the time.The aim is to reconstitute a path of relations between the two hemispheres that took place during a relatively recent period in the history of architecture, through a detailed survey of its key moments.When analysed from the perspective of what has been published, these moments of cultural and artistic influence, because they are scarce but not irrelevant, become measurable and important for the historical review of the processes of contact between the two geographies.A thorough analysis can give us a more realistic perspective of the processes of knowledge production and transfer that took place during a period of intense development.On the one hand, we intend to review the content of these relations between Portugal and Brazil in the field of architecture, and on the other establish a critical framework of how this relationship came to be understood within historical mythologies affected by phenomena of post-colonial collective psychology.In this process we will observe the characteristics of these influences, not only from an aesthetic and creative point of view, with its various nuances, but also as an intellectual and ideological