Notes on the origins of a ‘Red Brasilia’ in South of Paris, in Vitry-sur-Seine (1958-1973)

Authors

  • Diego Beja Inglez de Souza Universidade Católica de Pernambuco

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.1984-4506.v14i1p85-98

Keywords:

Social housing, Municipal communism, Brasília

Abstract

The particular history of the construction of the Grand Ensemble No. 4 in Vitry-sur-Seine (1959-6) 7 will serve as an object of analysis here to understand and discuss the role of Brasilia’s design and construction in the imaginary of the French communists in charge of Develop the so-called red suburbs, controlled by the French Communist Party (PCF). The strong inspiration of the new Brazilian capital reveals the deep links between the political challenges and conflicts that characterized the first half of the 1960s in France that emerge in the criticisms of the great groups and in the metamorphoses of the urban models and architectural references that will characterize the conception of the called villes nouvelles.

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Author Biography

  • Diego Beja Inglez de Souza, Universidade Católica de Pernambuco
    Arquiteto e Urbanista, doutor em Fundamentos da Arquitetura e Urbanismo pela Universidade de São Paulo - USP e doutor em História pela Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, professor da Universidade Católica de Pernambuco (UNICAP), Rua da União 543 ap.503, Recife, PE, Brasil

Published

2016-06-25

Issue

Section

Papers and Essays

How to Cite

Souza, D. B. I. de. (2016). Notes on the origins of a ‘Red Brasilia’ in South of Paris, in Vitry-sur-Seine (1958-1973). Risco - Journal of Architecture and Urbanism, 14(1), 85-98. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.1984-4506.v14i1p85-98