O lugar da Urbanística de Lucio Costa na Revisão do Movimento Moderno

Abstract

The present investigation proposes to gauge the place of urbanistic Brazilian architect and urban planner Lucio Costa (Toulon, 1902 - Rio de Janeiro, 1998) in the context of persistence, transformations, conceptual reformulations and critical reflections of the modern movement, encompassing from the initial ruptures with the Modern orthodoxy to the cultural context associated with the "postmodern" concept. Considering that Lucio Costa developed most of his urbanism projects during the period when the city became the main point of disciplinary debate-especially from the 1950s, when the foundational principles of the modern movement began to be widely questioned -, in its career, a repertoire that exceeded modern orthodoxy, encompassing aspects of the ideological, methodological and plastic quality as artistic expression, can be identified in its career. Although historiography, recurrently, does not associate with the urbanistic of Lucio Costa a place in the disciplinary revisions of the modern, due to its significant performance in the formation of modern Brazilian architecture and its action for the continuity of new architecture in Brazil, it is part From the assumption that he contributed and incorporated part of the revisions that were developed in his time, directly impacting the formal expression of its architecture and urbanistic and its theoretical production. Thus, some of their urbanism projects were examined, which revealed their own revisions, incorporations of postmodern discussions and a constant dialogue with their contemporaries. In other words, to support this argument, the thesis joined twelve urbanism projects developed between the 1930s and 1980s to gather a theoretical body, covering the formal expression, which demonstrated as Lucio Costa, starting from neocolonial architecture, evolved into a review of the revision of the Modern, having as dorsal structure the semantic elements and the linguistic vocabulary of the architecture of the Mesopotamium-Mediterranean axis, through its conceptualization about Portuguese architecture for the formation of modern architecture in Brazil. Moreover, also adopting a historiographical approach, research, analyzing the transformations and historical context of architecture, developed in architectural theory, examining the conceptual foundations and methodological paradigms of Lucio Costa, concentrated in project analysis, in order to to highlight the contributions and revisions incorporated into their urban practice.