Note: The following is a shortened version of the graduate report prepared for the Minimum Cost Housing Group (MCHG) of McGill University, Montreal. This report was written by myself, along with Cesar Gonzales, Tong Gan, Yue Li, Annalyn Maribbay and Alejandro Lopez. Proposals for Physical Aspects Community Level Community Self-Help Centre: The proposed Community Centre would be located on the current plot along street 21 and street 7. This vacant plot has large trees, which shall remain, and also an existing open shed. This is where the school was formerly located. The area being accessible from the main entrance to the community by primary streets makes it an ideal place for important social gatherings. Several community activities would be encouraged to be held there: Education and Training: A self-help centre was located within this area, catering for the residents' needs and helping define the upgrading process. This is where educatio...
Brasilia: living within modernist standards by: Marcio N. de Oliveira (originally written in 98 for Maquis, my old Geocities homepage) Introduction: Latin American countries have always pursued a sense of urban utopia. Nowhere else have modernistic urban theories, above all Le Corbusier's, controlled the minds of practicing architects and urban designers as much as in Latin America and specially Brazil. Brasilia was designed according to them and quite clearly exemplifies the shortcoming of such urban theories. Erected in record setting time of three years (1957-60), the city was planned in relation to Brazil's need to conquer physically, culturally and economically its own continent sized countryside. With this short essay I intend to show one view, the one of a natural Brasiliense , born and raised in Brasilia, living the daily life within modernist standards. Superquadras and Apartment Blocks: In Brasilia's urban landscape the central city was made up of two dense res...
by Marcio Oliveira (originally written in 98 for Maquis, a Geocities homepage I used to keep) After the First World War the echoes of the European cultural production started to arrive at Brazilian shores with somewhat increased intensity. The European influence reached its highest point in 1922, when the 'week of modern art' was held in São Paulo, with exhibits of paintings, sculptures, literature, theater, etc. To this date the week of 22 remains as the most preeminent manifestation of the introduction of the avant garde movement into the Brazilian cultural production. For its architectural portion, this important period culminated in 1929 with the construction of the first 'modernist' house designed by the Russian immigrant Gregory Warchavchik in São Paulo. The Brazilian architectural movement was decisively influenced by its European counterpart during the 1929 visit made by French-Swiss architect Le Corbusier to Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, in which he lec...
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