Edison Musa Office: the creative process and the production of the post Brasília Rio de Janeiro project

Abstract

In the post Brasília period, how did the native Rio de Janeiro architects worked and get organized in their places of project? Since the 1930s, modern Brazilian architecture had, in Rio de Janeiro, fertile land for its realizations, what highlighted even more the figure of an architect, so called modern, and of specific professional practice. There were, however, the company-offices, places of design of vital importance for the city’s architecture. Through them, there was the exercise of vigorous team work, where private initiative and the present reality began to gain evidence. They were also places that performed competently the path between the clipboard and the working site, and where it was heavily invested in the productive relation among architects, engineers and the civil construction industry. Having Brasília as a landmark for the constitution of a period in Rio de Janeiro’s architecture, this article presents how the process of creation and the production of architecture in Rio de Janeiro began to happen, taking as studycase the Edson Musa’s office, between 1963 and 1983, years whose because of its physical structure and total area of its realizations, would achieve a leading position as one of the greatest project offices in the country.