Architecture as Civil Commitment: Lucio Costa's Modernist Project for Brazil (Paperback)

Foreword Fernando LaraIntroductionThe start of a militant career: the direction of the School of Fine ArtsThe young director of the School of Fine ArtsA discreet revolutionThe Salao dos TenentesReport of a failureReasons of the new architecture: Gustavo Capanema’s grands travauxs A history to reconsiderThe great public assignments and Capanema’s "dossier"New architecture, between theory and practiceLe Corbusier and the appel a l’AutoriteNegotiations and lost opportunitiesA programme for national architecture: the years of the Estado NovoStruggles and compromisesToward a State architectureA genealogy of modern Brazilian architectureA rising intellectualisationModernism and national heritageA strategy of mediation: between the CIAM and the SPHANShaping national heritageDealing with historical pre-existenceThe colonial roots of Brazilian architectureBaroque and national personalityBrazilian housesShaping the true Machine Age: art, city, landscapeParisian experiencesArt and the emancipation of the massesIn search of a new monumentalityA maquisard in urban planningLandscape and urbanismA new humanism