Arquitetura moderna e desenvolvimentismo: o morar brasileiro

Abstract

This dissertation has as main theme the modern forms of habitationin the Brazilian developmentalist period between the 1930s and 1960s.In this period the modernism arose, a movement that was characterized by promoting changes in society and whose ideology is linked to the developmentist policy. From this premise, this research aims to analyze the Brazilian modernist architecture associated with developmentalism in the period mentioned above and its application in new forms of habitation, especially in low-income housing implemented by the public housing policy.This is a qualitative research whose methodological procedures were based on literature, history, documentary and iconographic research, having as universe the practices of Brazilian modernist architecture. The study allows us to infer that the modernist architectural forms in Brazil are at the same time the expression of a new way of living and instrument of state power. The architectural forms are inserted in a political, economic, cultural and social context, in modernism they represent the materialization of a new way of thinking about space and society, planning and building the houses and consequently the transformation of cities.