Fernando Távora e Lucio Costa, pontos comuns

Abstract

The present dissertation focuses on the study of common points in the life and work of two important names of international architecture: Fernando Távora and Lucio Costa. Leading names in transition moments, in Portugal and in Brazil respectively, soon realize that the Modern Movement was much more than a passing style, and that its bases come from ancestral orders and rules, such as the great classic monuments. In this way, after a phase in which an initial abstractionism was necessary for the imposition of the new aesthetic and modern technique, both turned to a study of the local cultures and traditions, appropriating them as a component of extreme importance in the elaboration of their projects, never neglecting the constant evolution of constructive techniques. By collecting historical data, organizing them in order to tell the desired history per se, and an analysis of theoretical and practical works - two case studies for each architect - it is thus proposed in this work to compare, firstly, the attitude of the architects towards an outdated style of architecture ("A Casa Portuguesa" in Portugal, and the "Neo-colonial" Movement in Brazil), followed by the knowledge of the modern "new world", which was "presented" to them by Le Corbusier and, finally, the interpretations and revisions of this same Modern Movement, made by Fernando Távora and Lucio Costa, who have sometimes been so close to each other, although referring to countries with such differing conditions and characteristics.