Art and ethics of materials in the work of Vital Pessoa de Melo, 1968-1976

Authors

  • Ana Carolina Oliveira de Holanda Universidade Federal de Pernambuco; Desenvolvimento Urbano
  • Fernando Diniz Moreira Universidade Federal de Pernanbuco

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.1984-4506.v0i8p49-68

Keywords:

modern architecture, art, Recife

Abstract

This paper explores the aftermaths in the architecture of the State of Pernambuco, Brazil, of two fundamental issues in the international and national architectural debate of the 1950/60s: the manifestation of a Brutalist sensibility and the concerns for the integration between art and architecture. The modern architecture produced in Pernambuco was not isolated and crystallized, but inclined to assimilate other national and international influences. Through the work of Vital Pessoa de Melo, we attempt to establish relationships between the ethics/aesthetics of brutalism and the geometrical and spatial combinations of the artistic vanguards and show how they can be integrated in an architecture embodied with an ethic, artistic and cultural sense.

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Published

2008-07-01

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Section

Papers and Essays

How to Cite

Holanda, A. C. O. de, & Moreira, F. D. (2008). Art and ethics of materials in the work of Vital Pessoa de Melo, 1968-1976. Risco - Journal of Architecture and Urbanism, 8, 49-68. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.1984-4506.v0i8p49-68