INFINITE SPAN : 90 YEARS OF BRAZILIAN ARCHITECTURE
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- EAN: 9783037785898
- ISBN: 978-3-03778-589-8
- Editorial: LARS MULLER VERLAG
- Año de la edición: 2019
- Encuadernación: Rústica
- Páginas: 416
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países: arquitectura y arte
brasil: arquitectura y arte
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In architecture, a span is something to be conquered, a challenge to overcome. For an instance by reducing the number of supports, expanding floor slabs horizontally, tearing into the open air, and shedding more light on the ground floor. But span, or "vao" in Portuguese, also means a project or an action that ends in failure: something that was done in vain. For Brazilian architects, the word vao is almost always a synonym of freedom. In Brazil, modernization was touted as a leap over the country's history, cast as "backwardness" and, in the case of architecture, over the absence of two traditions: the classical and the artisanal-an abysmal jump, in the face of the immense scale of its territory. And a challenge met head-on by an ambitious aesthetic avant-garde, invested in new design and remarkable engineering.
