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“Arquitetura Nova.”

2018, In Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism

https://doi.org/10.4324/0123456789-rem1770-1
! Institutional Login . Search / Advanced Search + About , Browse , Resources , What's new Librarians Free trial Take a tour Help Tell us what you think Access to the full text of the entire article is only available to members of institutions that have purchased access. If you belong to such an institution, please log in or !nd out more about how to order. " Home * Published Arquitetura Nova 26/04/2018 By Grossman, Vanessa Article DOI Article 10.4324/0123456789-REM1770-1 When the architect Sérgio Ferro entitled his 1967 manifesto ‘New Architecture’, he proclaimed a new architecture in Brazil by means of alignment with the thesis-manifesto ‘An Aesthetic of Hunger’, written by the Brazilian !lmmaker Glauber Rocha, and !rst published two years earlier. According to Ferro, Arquitetura Nova was a clear reference to Rocha’s ‘New Cinema’: !lms made from ‘simple means and ideas in mind’. Together with architects Flávio Império and Rodrigo Lefèvre, Ferro took Cinema Novo’s ‘neo-realist’ approach as far as it could reasonably be applied to architecture. They designated it as a new ‘poetics of economy’ that should be de!ned from ‘the useful minimum’, the ‘constructive minimum’ and from the ‘didactic minimum’ for the formulation of a new language established ‘on the basis of Brazil’s historical reality’. In their texts and projects, developed throughout the 1960s, they advocated not only the use of popular materials and techniques in order to make architecture more accessible to the masses, but also the means by which the constructive process would be intelligible for all the protagonists involved. Despite the 1967 manifesto, written three years after Brazil’s coup d’état, Ferro only retrospectively referred to the group’s experience as Arquitetura Nova in 1988. # Save $ Cite % Print Related Items Architecture Modernism in Latin America From Googie architecture to the Find out about Flamenco, Salsa & Sign up for newsletter ' ( ) © 2021 Informa UK Limited, an Informa Group Company & About Routledge | Contact us | Librarians & Privacy Policy | Cookie Policy | Terms We use cookies to improve your website experience. To learn about our use of cookies and how you can manage your cookie settings, please see our Cookie Policy. Policy. To use the website as intended please... ACCEPT COOKIES