Pós. Revista do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Arquitetura e Urbanismo da FAUUSP
Pós- is an international scientific journal, refereed and indexed, administered by the Graduate Program of the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism of the University of São Paulo - FAUUSP. Its objective is to publish national and international research results through unpublished articles reviewed by the double blind peer review system and thus contribute to the dissemination of scientific production developed in the various areas related to architecture, urban planning and design.
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Designers and the System’s Order: Shaping Disciplinary Boundaries in Debates on Design Education, 1965–1967
This article examines debates on design education held in seminars in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) and Ulm (Germany) in 1965, and in Syracuse (USA) in 1967. Based on the transcripts of these meetings, we highlight the contributions of figures such as Lucio Grinover and Tomás Maldonado regarding the disciplinary definitions of design. We argue that in the Brazilian case, the demarcation of boundaries between architecture and design was a central issue, while in the international meetings the very notion of design was challenged through its contact with other disciplines, design methods, and technological developments.
Copyright (c) 2026 João Bittar Fiammenghi https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0
Territoriality and abstraction: between the Quilombo do Saracura and the Parque da Grota
This article analyzes the Parque da Grota project, coordinated by architect Paulo Mendes da Rocha between 1973 and 1974. It focuses on the project’s dialogue with the pre-existing reality of the Saracura area in Bixiga, São Paulo, and the multiple layers involved in that process. This urban renovation plan was part of a broader chain of institutionalized planning and funding for housing and infrastructure works at the core of the spatial production mechanisms of Brazil’s military dictatorship. Thus, it was inherently characterized by the displacement of populations and the replacement of much of the built environment in that area, and it specifically targeted an important Black territory in the city, the Quilombo Saracura, a direct descendant. This study aims to examine the ambiguous ways in which such social tension was addressed in the project presented by the architects and consultants, in order to reflect—through this specific case—on the stakes, limits, and internal contradictions within the disciplinary field of architecture.
Copyright (c) 2025 Victor Piedade de Prospero https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0
From Panofsky to Dosse: a journey through different ways of relating architecture and history
Based on Erwin Panofsky’s formulations in Gothic Architecture and Scholasticism, especially his concept of mental habits, this article revisits influential later approaches to understand the historical conception of architectural works. The article analyzes the revival of this concept during the 1960s in the social sciences and history. Notably, after this period, with the dissemination of linguistic structuralism, issues surrounding artistic historiography became integrated into discussions within sociology, cultural history, and biography. Building on this process, the article discusses frameworks proposed by Pierre Bourdieu and Roger Chartier, as well as François Dosse’s intellectual biography.
Copyright (c) 2025 Priscilla Alves Peixoto, Weber Schimiti https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0
SOCIAL FACILITIES SQUARES: CENTERS FOR URBAN STRUCTURING AND DEMOCRATIC CITY MANAGMENT
This article aims to characterize the Social Facilities Squares (SFS), developed by the Department of Buildings of the São Paulo City Hall between 1992 and 2001. The relevance of the study lies in the limited literature on the subject and its influence on subsequent public policies, such as the Unified Educational Centers. This cross-sectional case study drew on bibliographic sources, interviews with the author of the project, Alexandre Delijaicov, and the redesign of original sketches. The text begins by presenting the programmatic concept of the projects in relation to social demands and the political-administrative innovations of the period. It then examines the design rationale via the study of three SFS considered representative of the maturation of constructive logic appropriate to the challenges of public architecture. The analysis enabled the historical documentation of the proposals and highlighted their influence on the city’s architectural culture.
Copyright (c) 2025 Alexandre Delijaicov, Eduardo Nudel Radomysler https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0
Analysis of the integrity of concrete facades apparent to modern heritage
Reinforced concrete structures in modern architecture have presented issues that directly impact their integrity, affecting the physical consistency and maintenance of the original characteristics of the material. The occurrence of pathological manifestations on exposed concrete and intervention actions in the structure can affect the integrity and visual perception of the property as a unit, generating fragmentations in the visual reading of the work. Despite the importance of the concept of integrity in the heritage conservation process, there is still no clear consensus regarding the exact meaning of its application and the establishment of specific parameters. This work aims to present the concept of integrity and its application in heritage conservation, proposing the analysis of the integrity of exposed concrete facades based on the attributes of modern heritage. It is concluded that each case and intervention action impacts attributes directly linked to integrity, and this analysis is important for making conservation decisions regarding exposed concrete works of modern heritage.
Copyright (c) 2025 Allana de Deus Peixoto Moura, Carlos Eduardo Luna de Melo, Flaviana Barreto Lira https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0
The poetics of lines: the narratives of place through drawing
This article presents drawing as a phenomenological practice for representing and interpreting urban spaces. Based on case studies of the João Ribeiro, João Costa, and Vidal Ramos Sênior Squares in Lages, Santa Catarina, the study investigates how sketches can capture the urban ambiance through graphic records that integrate architectural, landscape, and social elements. The methodology examines drawing as a tool for identifying memories, histories, and symbolism, highlighting its relevance to the appreciation of cultural heritage and the construction of local identities. By transcending the role of a mere visual record, sketches emerge as sensitive instruments of perception and interpretation, fostering a connection between observer and space, enriching the urban experience, and highlighting layers of historical, social, and emotional meaning.
Copyright (c) 2025 Gessica Coelho Silva, Andréa Holz Pfützenreuter https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0
­Utzon, Korsmo e o grupo Pagon: entre o vernáculo e a mecânica do lar
This article aims to delineate the theoretical and practical precepts of the Progressive Arkitekters Gruppe Oslo Norge PAGON group based on an analysis of its formation in the early 1950s and its relationship with the Congrès Internationaux d’Architecture Moderne (CIAM), as well as to identify how these principles were employed in specific ways in projects designed by some of its members: the Danish architect Jørn Utzon and the Norwegian architects Arne Korsmo and Christian Norberg-Schulz. Informed by strategies originating from the modern movement, yet, operating in conjunction with architectural references outside the Western canon and with growth patterns found in nature, the architecture of the PAGON group presents itself simultaneously as a critique of and an extension to the principles established by CIAM. Considering these circumstances, the unique position of the PAGON group and its architects in the early post-war context becomes evident, particularly in their anticipation of the so-called neo-avant-garde and the later dissent within CIAM stemming from Team X.
Copyright (c) 2025 Felipe Ferla da Costa, Maria Paula Recena https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0
Reviver Centro Program: commercial housing for downtown rio
Rio de Janeiro Municipal Complementary Law 229/2021 created the Reviver Centro Program (PRC), which aims to reactivate the real estate stock by retrofitting existing buildings and constructing new housing in the Centro and Lapa neighborhoods. In this context, the Municipal Government introduced the Interlinked Operation (OI), which operates by enabling prior construction in Centro, generating development potential in receiving areas. This study highlights the social inefficacy of the PRC, and the production of high-cost housing, the trend toward typological homogenization, and the concentration of development potential in high-income areas with the OI. This mechanism was used to make urban planning parameters laxer in upscale neighborhoods, casting doubt on the program’s focus in Centro. The PRC was found to not promote adequate housing, favoring short-term rental stocks and fostering gentrification and real estate speculation. The study also emphasizes the discursive nature of promoting housing for lower-income groups, revealing the hijacking of the popular housing agenda, and underscores the need for democratic urban management to ensure the fair distribution of urban space.
Copyright (c) 2025 Fernanda Apolinario Coelho, Cláudio Rezende Ribeiro https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0
Baroque-Mestizo architecture: Sephardic contributions to the houses of the Bandeiristas.
Popular Brazilian architecture is made up of a marquetry of mixed forms that intersect in baroque profusion—in excesses, intransigence and paradoxes, to mention just three characteristics. There is no point in searching for its origins to pinpoint a pure mythical identity because said genealogy is unattainable, non-existent. Worth is looking at the crucible of mestizo composition and discovering the different contributions that have been added to it. In relation to São Paulo’s bandeirista houses, we can raise various hypotheses about Sephardic contributions through New Christians families, whether Judaizing or not, who took part in creating them. These hypotheses emerge from the genealogical study of the first owners, finding their New-Christian ancestors, several with processeswhich, judged by the Inquisition, that led to prison or bonfire. Based on this principle, conjectures are raised about some architectural decisions that may point to a deep religious experience and mystical understanding of reality and being in the world of these first Iberian settlers in the region.
Copyright (c) 2025 João Lucas Vieira Nogueira https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0
Technical-scientific debate on Porto Alegre´'s flood defense (1917-1943)
This article explores the technical-scientific debate surrounding flood protection in Porto Alegre during the first half of the 20th century, with a focus on the Guaíba River. The catastrophic floods that occurred in Rio Grande do Sul in April–May 2024 reignited both public and technical interest in the topic. At that time, the causes and consequences of the floods were widely analyzed in the media by specialists in climate science, hydrology, and urban planning, reflecting an unprecedented level of public engagement with science. In light of this context, the central research question is: What technical-scientific solutions were discussed in the past to protect Porto Alegre from flooding? Based on four historical documents from the field of engineering, this study examines how the city’s flood risk was addressed within the framework of modern scientific discourse. The analyzed sources reveal a vision of urban development deeply rooted in the ideals of modernity and in the belief in scientific and technical control over nature.
Copyright (c) 2025 Bruno Cesar Euphrasio de Mello https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0
Modernization of Urban Space in Assis - SP: the 1918 Municipal Code
The study aims to analyze the impact of the 1918 Código de Posturas (Municipal Code of Conduct) in the city of Assis, São Paulo, considering the context of urban and social transformations of the early 20th century. The research is based on a qualitative and historical approach, utilizing documentary analysis of the Municipal Code of Assis, complemented by a literature review on conduct codes in colonial and imperial Brazil. The methodology includes a comparison between the Municipal Code of Assis and that of Presidente Prudente, exploring the implications of these regulations for urban governance and the modernization of urban spaces. The results discuss the role of the Municipal Code as an instrument of state power centralization and standardization of urban norms, highlighting its contribution to the organization of urban space, regulation of social and economic practices, and promotion of public health. The research concludes that the Municipal Code of Assis was fundamental for the modernization and standardization of urban norms, reflecting the social and sanitary demands of a rapidly expanding city.
Copyright (c) 2025 Gisele Carignani, Caio Cesar Tomaz de Oliveira https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0
The production of interstitial infrastructures from morphological, environmental and social tools and parameters: the case of the city of São Paulo
The city of São Paulo is persistently shaped following the logics of the buildings, in detriment of the space between them; in other words, its urban interstices. In opposition, it is put forward a hypothesis that the city, when produced from interstitial infrastructures based on morphological, environmental, and social aspects, results in higher quality environments for the population. Thus, this article aims to present a research experience within a PhD design-driven study, focused on surveying and analyzing typical urban interstices in São Paulo and developing morphological, environmental, and social tools and parameters to guide urban planning and design centered on the spaces between buildings. The research method combines Fieldwork, Analytical Work, and Prospective Work, grounded in theoretical foundations. Finally, in contrast to current urban regulations and practices, the article presents alternative future speculations for territories under transformation in the city of São Paulo, exemplifying and legitimizing the infrastructural potential of its urban voids.
Copyright (c) 2025 Eduardo Pimentel Pizarro, Joana Carla Soares Gonçalves https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0
Rodrigo Lefèvre and the brazilian Modern Architecture
This article examines the theoretical production of architect Rodrigo Brotero Lefèvre (1938-1984) based on an effort to identify his stance regarding Brazilian Modern Architecture. It analyzes the main authors and concepts mobilized in his theoretical formulations, his architectural production, and his historical context. We conclude that Rodrigo Lefèvre’s work differs from the hegemonic canon of Brazilian Modern Architecture by claiming a critical stance, indebted to the avant-gardes, attentive to the social contradictions underlying the process of national modernization.
Copyright (c) 2025 Vinícius Okada, Leandro Silva Medrano https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0
Anat Falbel, Lucjan Korngold arquiteto, São Paulo, Romano Guerra 2023. (Versão em português e Original em italiano)
Livro resenhado Lucjan Korngold Arquiteto. FALBEL, Anat. Anat Falbel, Lucjan Korngold Arquiteto, São Paulo, Romano Guerra 2023. (versão em português) ISBN: 9786587205298
Adalberto da Silva Retto Júnior Retto Júnior
Copyright (c) 2025 Donatella Calabi, Adalberto da Silva Retto Júnior Retto Júnior https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0
Suppressed floor: from the warehouse to the vertical port of Santos
This article explores the interaction between the hydrological regime and the population in the insular region of Santos (São Paulo, Brazil) by means of an infrastructure project and its primary sources. We investigate how coexistence with the waters, in an attempt to domesticate them, supports land planning at the Port of Santos, highlighting the centripetal and centrifugal movements within the Anthropocene. We analyze the historical and cultural heritage and the natural and anthropic elements of tropical coastal regions, applying a theoretical-methodological approach that clarifies these dynamics. We propose three prospective scenarios based on the identified movements: the first scenario, centripetal, focuses on historical techniques for water domestication and integrating these practices into current urban planning. The second, centrifugal, reflects a strategic distancing aiming to transform the port ground into areas such as natural parks and spaces of “common urbanism.” The third scenario, marked by the disappearance of the planned logistic ground, introduces the “binary amphibious quay,” an infrastructure that operates in harmony with the sea, inspired by historical studies on sea-level rise and climate projections. The concept of “suppressing” encompasses both physical elements, such as docks and quay walls, and now obsolete natural, social, cultural, and political aspects of estuaries. We argue that the construction of large infrastructures must consider their integration with the environment, using architecture that dialogues with various fields of knowledge to prevent disasters and improve urban life. In this essay we propose the “Vertical Port,” a project that challenges paradigms by minimizing land use and maximizing the use of airspace, promoting ecological balance, and revitalizing the “suppressed grounds” in the port area of Santos. This project, in the investigation phase, seeks to challenge existing norms and engage.
Copyright (c) 2024 Luciene Ribeiro dos Santos de Freitas, Dhiego Torrano, Rosana Helena Miranda https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0
Designing sacred plant gardens on the Garden trails Botanist of Salvador-Bahia
This article stems from an exploratory study intended to building an axes and research project focused on studying sacred plants of public open spaces and Afro- Brazilian religions in the urban context of Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. To this end, it wals the oitis and pau-brasil trails in the Botanical Garden of Salvador (BGS) aiming to identify plants considered sacred, highlighting symbolism and landscape design intentions. The text introduces general aspects about sacred plants and their presence in the city of Salvador, bringing to light the BGS.—an open space forgotten by the city residents and little discussed in scientific research, which since its creation has intended to house sacred plants and preserve the Atlantic Forest. To achieve this scope, we present and discuss the project of an ethnobotanical garden conducted in 2019 by the Embyá office and not yet implemented. As a methodology, we bring drawings as a tool for representation, design and reflection.
Copyright (c) 2024 Nayara Amorim, Mayara Araújo https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0
The piranha ox of the crossing of capital: the submission of work, body domination and the property industry in the production of space
This article analyzes the recent real estate and urban restructuring in the region of Luz, Santa Ifigênia and Campos Elíseos, in downtown São Paulo; and the neighborhoods of Vila Bela, Jardim Cibele and Jardim Colônia, in the East Zone of the municipality. The relationship that emerges from these particular cases combines, in an unequal manner, with the restructuring of the Metropolis as a whole: urban renewal through the construction of ‘special vocations, of specific uses and in determined spaces, within its borders. The analysis conceives the contradictory unity between the production of value, the production of the body and the production of space by considering the property industry and the dispute over space as its central problems. The conflict for the monopoly of space and value at the immediate and everyday level expresses the most general contradiction between the relations of capital reproduction and social reproduction. This constitutes a ‘regime of expropriation,’ in which urban renewal in certain locations in the city intensifies social vulnerability in others. A condition that is crossed by dimensions of class, gender, race and sexuality: unequal insertion in the structure of social relations of production and reproduction
Copyright (c) 2024 Guilherme Moreira Petrella https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0
Urban morphology and typology of gated communities in the metropolis of Porto Alegre–RS
The study of typologies within the context of urban morphology aims to analyze the classification of different types of buildings and their spatial organization, enabling an understanding of different forms of urban space occupation related to contemporary dynamics that shape the landscape. In this regard, this article aims to explore the urban morphology of the metropolis of Porto Alegre, seeking to discuss typologies of gated communities and analyze their socio-spatial distribution. The research was conducted based on the analysis of satellite images and the 2010 Demographic Census, where nine types were defined according to the built forms of each type. Subsequently, the spatial distribution was analyzed according to social variables. Two neighborhoods in the central-eastern zone (Boa Vista and Jardim Europa), where high-income gated communities predominate, and two in the southern zone (Tristeza and Camaquã), which have the highest number of gated communities, were analyzed in more depth. The analysis identified different types that cater to distinct social classes, reflecting segregation dynamics and distribution patterns that highlight historical and economic processes that have shaped the city's urbanization.
Copyright (c) 2024 Carolina Rezende Faccin, Nicole Bueno Leal de Almeida, Heleniza Ávila Campos https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0
Religious architecture in the southwest of Goiás: Church of São Sebastião in Rio Verde and Church of Divino Espírito Santo de Towers of Rio Bonito (19th and 20th centuries)
This article analyzes the religious architecture produced in southwestern Goiás in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, especially the Churches of São Sebastião in Rio Verde and Divino Espírito Santo in Torres do Rio Bonito, present-day Caiapônia. We aim to understand, based on the constitution of ecclesiastical heritage, the plans, parties, volumes, formal elements and modifications of the only examples of this architecture in the region. We thus seek to record an architectural production with vernacular bases and contribute to the historiography on the subject.
Copyright (c) 2024 Rafael Alves Pinto Junior https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0
The article deals with the relationship between music and architecture based on the operation of graphic transposition of the musical score to generate formal-spatial ideas in architecture. In order to understand the dialogue between the two fields, the Sarphatistraat Offices project by architect Steven Holl was used as an object of study, which used the graphic score of the music Patterns in a Chromatic Field, by Morton Feldman, as a precedent in its conception. In addition to discussing graphic transposition, the text makes an analogy between musical chromaticism and spatial chromaticism through the behavior of light in the volume of the building studied.
Copyright (c) 2024 Bruno Firmino Costa da Silva, Anália Maria Marinho de Carvalho Amorim https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0
Reflections on a necessary re-enchantment of hospitality
Nationalist invocations, democratic disenchantment, widespread creation of dehumanizing exclusion areas, populations kept on the margins even within their territories, inter-racial, intercultural and religious conflicts seen as avatars of civility. Our contemporary world demands that we look once again to hospitality—a hospitality yet to come, unknown, unnamable, which will certainly require an exercise in repositioning and displacing the concepts of subject, citizenship, humanity, politics, justice, borders, inside and outside. But this exercise of becoming-hospitality will require us to look back to [re]think the present and the future. Thus, thinkers such as Kant, Lévinas, Ricoeur, Arendt, Derrida, Rancière and others who dedicated themselves to theorizing about citizenship, the other’s right to exist, the idea of justice from the arrival of the other and with the other were called upon to help us think about an [im]possible re-enchantment of a hospitality that governments never cease to call into question by questioning its limits and virtue.
Copyright (c) 2024 Igor Guatelli, Chris Younès https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0
Vilanova Artigas and Sérgio Ferro in Balneário Camboriú: the garden of forking paths
Based on archival documentation, this work focuses on the well-known record-breaking skyscrapers of Latin America located in Balneário Camboriú and the lesser-known architectural designs produced for this city by architects João Batista Vilanova Artigas and Sérgio Ferro Pereira, thus presenting new images for the future and reflecting on the contradictions arising from different conceptions of urbanization.
Copyright (c) 2024 João Paulo Serraglio https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0
To welcome the faith: brief historical overview of the construction of the Santo Amaro Mother Church, in Brumal – Minas Gerais
During the 18th century, mineral exploitation in Minas Gerais built spaces to meet the spiritual needs of its population. That perspective built the Mother Church of Santo Amaro in the Brumal district, Minas Gerais. Its construction illustrates part of the panorama of sacred architecture in Portuguese America. Thus, this study aimed to examine, by primary documentation, the history of the Mother Church of Santo Amaro, focusing on its construction, the materials and techniques used for it, and the architectural solutions in the face of contemporary practices on building sites in the first half of the 1700s since the region evinces similar architectural designs and programs to delineate the spatial organization and define the volume of the building as a whole.
Copyright (c) 2024 Dr. Aziz Jos´e de Oliveira Pedrosa https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0
Marx, Nietzsche and the dialectic of the state in Henri Lefebvre
This study seeks to understand Henri Lefebvre’s theory of the State through a dialectical analysis of the theories of two of his main influences: Karl Marx and Friedrich Nietzsche. Through a literature review, the study aims to comprehend how both philosophers explain the public institution and how Lefebvre interprets their theories. It is understood that while Marx sees the origin of the State in materiality, Nietzsche sees it in the will to power. However, both thinkers understand the State as a limiting entity: for the development of social classes in Marx’s case, and for individual development and overcoming in Nietzsche’s. The analysis of Lefebvre’s State theory shows that he absorbed such contradiction, where the curbing of individual development is precisely the means used by the State to limit the development of a social class submissive to a dominant class.
Copyright (c) 2024 Pedro Jablinski Castelhano, Evandro Fiorin https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0
Demetrio Ribeiro and socialist realism: architecture and politics in Porto Alegre in the 1950s
This article sheds light on the architectural-political events that took place in the early 1950s in Porto Alegre by focusing on the architect Demetrio Ribeiro and his connection to socialist realism. Investigating Ribeiro’s work, inspired by communist aesthetic ideology, reveals the complexities of the theoretical and practical context of the first modern architecture phase in Porto Alegre. The opening years of 1950 marked a period in which the first generation of architects from the southernmost capital of Brazil dared to present first examples of modern “Brazilian architecture,” a term that qualified certain expressions belonging to the “Carioca school” or its canons, within a still conservative urban fabric.
Copyright (c) 2024 Rodrigo Troyano https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0
Non-proprietary forms of living threatened: evictions and removals in São Paulo during the COVID-19 pandemic
From the perverse conjunction between an increasing social and economic crisis during the COVID-19 pandemic (2020-2022) — with rising unemployment, deteriorating incomes and increase of debt — and an unprecedent real estate boom, which caused a rise in land and rent prices, emerged new squats and an intensified number of displacements and evictions in São Paulo city, Brazil. However, the occurrence of displacement and evictions is quite invisible in the field of urban policies. This article presents the methods used by the Evictions Observatory to identify these processes, using cartography as a research method and analysis. By mobilizing data derived from different sources, we relate evictions to changes in real estate-renting dynamics that leads to the displacement of non-proprietary forms of living. We also investigated their relation with governmental plans, policies and projects which take on the role of incentivizing the market to produce new real estate products or offering rent as a service, in a context of increasing participation of real estate as financial assets and growing presence of asset managers and digital platforms in these markets.
Copyright (c) 2024 Matheus Henrique da Silva Martins, Raquel Rolnik https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0
Project registration of experimental processes of the book toy - O Quintal do Erê
This article addresses the processes and design experimentation for the development of a toy book entitled “O Quintal Do Erê” aimed at children and adults interested in themes linked to African ancestry in Brazil by recording the reflections resulting from observing the design path involved in the book development. It sought material and immaterial remains from African culture through Candomblé, focusing on the orixás and erês who are children’s representatives. Its purpose is to awaken the reader’s curiosity to explore the history behind unconventional pages of a book in the form of an object. The research is structured in literature, in the fundamentals of playing from the child’s perspective and in the observation of the conceptual and practical construction of the book-object.
Copyright (c) 2025 Eunice Gonçalves Queiroz, Cyntia Carneiro de Souza , Josivan Pereira da Silva, Renata de Oliveira Domingos Morettin https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0
Decolonizing the capital: political-affective cartography of wandering bodies around the city of Brasília
Based on the analysis of urban interventions by four artists and collectives from both the central and peripheral areas of the Federal District, I propose the development of a brief political-affective cartography of Brasília, whose original urban design is characterized by constituting a segregating device that, to this day, grants to the city one of the greatest social inequalities in the country. To achieve this, I initially turn to the concept of decolonial aesthetics as a theoretical-epistemological framework to decentralize the role of representation and visual stimulation in the arts, prioritizing other forms of meaning production by aisthesis, placing the body as an agent of city occupation, as proposed by the practice of delirium ambulatorium in Hélio Oiticica’s work. I find in the discussed artists echoes of the tropicalist painter and sculptor in the aesthetic practice of walking and wandering as a possibility to merge the body with space, constituting a subversive way of understanding the formation of subjectivities in the neoliberal urban context.
Copyright (c) 2024 Gabriela Freitas https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0
Affective perception of colors in a hemodialysis hospital environment
Color is one of the environments perceptible aspects and a means of information necessary for architecture interpretation, with physiological and psychological reflexes on individuals. This research aimed to identify the levels of affect related to the environmental perception of color in the hospital dialysis sector. A total of 115 individuals were interviewed, including patients, companions, and medical staff from two hospitals, in a random convenience sample. A two-dimensional model of affect, the PANAS-VPR scale, was used, as a function of the environments experienced and their digitally colored images with a predominance of four distinct, complementary and high-value hues, using Munsell notations as a reference. Data analysis was performed through descriptive statistics and content analysis of users' observations. The results showed that the built environment, mostly white, has lower medians of positive affect in relation to the chromatic schemes simulations (edited photographs), which showed high median positive affect with prevalent cold arrangements, followed by prevalent warm arrangements. The users general preference was higher for the arrangement with a light blue predominance, followed by light green, beige, light pink and, finally, the real environment white.
Copyright (c) 2025 Imara Angélica Macêdo Duarte, Carla Pereira https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0
Brazilian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale
This article aims to review the construction trajectory and subsequent inauguration of the Brazilian pavilion, at the 32nd edition of the Venice Biennale, in 1964. With an inedited documentation, collected in the Venice Biennale Historical Archive of Contemporary Arts (ASAC), we examine the historical process of Brazilian artistic and geographical affirmation in the Italian exposition. We also address the close connection between the dissolution of the old MAM (1962) and the creation of the institutions MAC USP (1963), Fundação Bienal de São Paulo (1963), showing here a new conditioning in the management of Brazilian modern art. We will also contextualise the backstage of the inauguration of the Brazilian pavilion with the out of step recovery of the modernist language of Tarsila do Amaral on its opening.
Copyright (c) 2024 Dunia Roquetti https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0