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ARCHITECTURE SURVEYS, COMPETITIONS, AND PERIODICALS

PUBLISHER
Lars Müller Publishers/Casa da Arquitectura

BOOK FORMAT
Paperback, 8.25 x 10.75 in. / 400 pgs / 400 color.

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D.A.P. Exclusive
Catalog: SPRING 2019 p. 173   

PRODUCT DETAILS
ISBN 9783037785898 TRADE
List Price: $50.00 CAD $69.95

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TERRITORY
NA LA

EXHIBITION SCHEDULE

Matosinhos, Portugal
Casa da Arquitectura, 09/28/18–03/10/19

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Infinite Span: 90 Years of Brazilian Architecture

Edited by Fernando Serapião, Guilherme Wisink. Text by Adrián Gorelik, Daniele Pisani, Jean-Louis Cohen, Ana Vaz Milheiro, Diego de Souza, Ana Luiza Nobre, Wellington Cançado.

Infinite Span: 90 Years of Brazilian Architecture

In architecture, a span is something to be conquered, a challenge to be overcome. But span, or vão in Portuguese, also means a project or an action that ends in failure: something that was done in vain.

In Brazil, modernization was touted as a leap over the country’s history, cast as “backwardness,” and, in the case of modern architecture, over what seemed to be an absent artisanal tradition and classical past. This was a lot of ground to cover—a challenge met head-on by an ambitious aesthetic avant-garde, invested in new design and remarkable engineering.

Brazil is a country “condemned to the modern,” said the critic Mário Pedrosa, conceiving this condemnation as a kind of liberation—a liberation from tradition, and a freedom to transform what could be done in vain (em vão) in the effective cultural conquest of the free span (vão livre). For Brazilian architects, vão is almost always a synonym for freedom.

Infinite Span: 90 Years of Brazilian Architecture assembles representative projects and works of Brazilian architecture made between 1920 and 2018. It creatively juxtaposes projects and proposes dialogues between them, and highlights intersections between architecture and music, literature, cinema and performing arts. The importance of these cross-disciplinary exchanges is evidenced in the book’s structure, which is broken up into six chronological and thematic modules with titles corresponding to songs from each period.


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