Book, Brazil: Architectures After 1950[LS]

Brazil: Architectures after 1950 is a work with a vocation to become a reference in the study and teaching of architecture in Brazil. According to the Catalan critic and historian Josep Maria Montaner, who wrote the preface, it is 'an important fact because, due to its quality, it will be situated in the tradition of critical interpretations of contemporary Brazilian architecture, and a necessary text because it provides a new vision that was vital to refocus the contemporary history of Brazilian architecture, imprisoned by prejudices, topics and schemes, generally emphasizing a supposed and unsurpassable golden age'.. Carefully constructed by Maria Alice Junqueira Bastos and Ruth Verde Zein, the book, an initiative of the publisher Perspectiva, helps to fill many gaps in Brazilian historiography on the subject, whether due to the breadth of the research, which analyzes works and projects of all types, or due to its verticality, in describing relevant works and experiences in detail, with sensitivity and technical precision, or due to its critical positioning of the project as an event technically and culturally engaged in the political process of constructing a Brazilian identity, but not just any identity, but one that also imposes itself as the protagonist of an international production.. § With a vast repertoire of works and subjects, moving through apartment corridors and exclusive bus lanes, analyzing the technical and plastic properties of the building, as well as its territorial relevance and its current relevance as a language, Bastos and Zein were not intimidated by the size of the undertaking and the responsibility of showing the virtues and defects of the various Brazilian architectures of the last six decades. A great opportunity for those who want to see architecture.