Risky Spaces: essays by Otávio Leonídeo Contributor(s): Leonídeo, Otávio (Author), Lara, Fernando (Editor), Guerra, Abilio (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1946070041 ISBN-13: 9781946070043 Publisher: Nhamerica Press LLC OUR PRICE: $17.99 Product Type: Paperback Published: October 2017 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Architecture | Criticism - Travel | South America - Brazil - Art | Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions - General |
Series: Latin America: Thoughts |
Physical Information: 0.53" H x 5" W x 7" (0.49 lbs) 254 pages |
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Publisher Description: The first subject is Lucio Costa. Both of the texts that focus on his ouevre ("Criticism and Crisis" and "In Search for the Words of Our Master") are developments of my doctoral dissertation, which I defended in 2005 at Pontif cia Universidade Cat lica do Rio de Janeiro. Whenever I addressed Costa's thinking, it was in order to understand how he managed to account for the questions that challenged the leaders of Brazilian modernist movement. And what became clear to me is that, without Costa's enunciations, Brazilian modern architecture as we know it would never have existed. The second subject is Brazilian modern architecture itself - more specifically, the power of its presence in the contemporary scenario. "Cidade da M sica: The Invader," " lvaro Siza Vieira: Another Void" and "Risky Space" are all essays that take the architecture of Niemeyer, Reidy and the like as a bench mark for works as diverse as those of Christian de Portzamparc, lvaro Siza and Angelo Bucci. But the texts also convey the wish to problematize the notion of heritage itself - in this case, a heritage that always seemed more embarrassing than
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