Modern Architecture for the Brazilian Dictatorship: Ambivalences in the São Paulo Military Headquarters, Ibirapuera Park (1965)

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https://doi.org/10.22320/07196466.2024.42.066.03

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modern architecture, military architecture, brutalism, military headquarters, dictatorship

Abstract

This article examines the relationship between modern architecture and the Brazilian Military Dictatorship (1964-1985) in the case of the military headquarters designed by communist architects for a violently anti-communist regime: the Second Army Headquarters in Ibirapuera, a project by a team led by the architect Paulo Bastos, a case with strong symbolic entanglements in the heart of São Paulo. Although the architects were against the regime and were the target of the dictatorship’s repression, a close look at this case reveals nuances in the actors' reactions to that context, as well as a more complex relationship between architecture and authoritarianism, which goes beyond the binary lenses of resistance or collaboration. This case is an important node to reflect on the complex relationships between architecture and politics, especially under authoritarian regimes. It also helps to reflect on modern architecture itself, the immanent contradictions of its objects, and the ambivalences of the epistemological investments that underpin it.

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Victor Próspero, Princeton University, Princeton, United States

Doctor in History of Architecture and Urbanism.
Postdoctoral Fellow at Princeton Mellon, School of Architecture.

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2024-07-31

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Próspero, V. (2024). Modern Architecture for the Brazilian Dictatorship: Ambivalences in the São Paulo Military Headquarters, Ibirapuera Park (1965). ARQUITECTURAS DEL SUR, 42(66), 42–59. https://doi.org/10.22320/07196466.2024.42.066.03

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V.42, N.66 (JULY 2024)

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