Arquitetura, poder e educação no Brasil: o Centro de Atenção Integral a Criança - CAIC

Abstract

This present work has a principal goal to check in what measure the architecture of officials schools buildings, more specifically Total Attention Center to the Child - CAIC, it could generate spaces which makes easy the vigilance, the outside look and the control of individuals in the building space. The work talks about the question of the modern architecture, making an outline historical moment of its creation, taking accounts ideals and principles. It still develops a discussion about architecture of schools spaces and the power manifestations. It still shows the influence of modern architecture in conception of CAIC which was a proposal of standardized school held in Itamar Franco management. It holds as well, an analysis of modern architecture and the discipline school process, bringing the Foucault view of the watchfulness and the instruments control, showing the principal aspects that interfered in the comprehension of modern city, as well as the city as urban space: local power, also the creation of an image which would transform Brazil in a modern nation, where the concepts of modernity were utterly mingled by the society, through the schools buildings as well, as the school which is shown in this research.