Transformative lessons: Elements for another reading of Brasilia
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https://doi.org/10.22320/07196466.2019.37.055.03Keywords:
Análise, design, theory, review, BrasiliaAbstract
The objective of this work was to identify contemporary design lessons based on an analysis of architectural and urban projects in Brasilia. This is a Brazilian city in which architecture and urbanism played a leading role, but which postmodern criticism erroneously condemned by limiting its value to a purely historical dimension considered to be irrelevant as a project reference. In order to overcome this value judgment and to achieve other possibilities for analysis, a number of texts aligned with the retroactive manifesto procedure were examined. Subsequently, an international workshop was organized that used this procedure to observe the existing architectural and urban situations and discuss the possibilities for theoretical coordination with the consequent construction of a repertoire of design lessons. This work led to exploring the possibility of reinterpreting the historically-recognized production of architectural and urban projects located within the area of the Brasilia Pilot Plan from the perspective of contemporary theoretical references, thus generating a new and updated understanding of the local projects. The workshop also made it possible to recognize the theoretical and design potential of so called ordinary situations encountered mainly in the peripheral areas of the metropolitan expansion of the federal capital, in which the erudite production of architecture and urbanism is generally absent, but where it was possible to find surprising lessons to be learned and incorporated into the teaching of theory and design offered by our schools.
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