Potentials for Surgical Urbanism

Cornell Journal of Architecture 11, Data, Densities, Formats, Helena Rong, High Density, Politics and economics, Territory and mobility, Topics, Urban Paradigms

Affordable Housing, Brazil, Built environment, Challenge, City challenge, Commercial, Community, Data, Economics, Flexibility, Gentrification, Inequality, Infrastructure, Mobility, Modernism, Open Space, Participation, Public housing, Public Space, Public space role, Public Transport, Public vs. Private, São Paulo, Temporary appropriation, Territory, Traffic, Urban Development, Urban growth, Urbanism

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The robustness and immense international influence of Brazilian architecture designed and built between the 1920s and 1970s distinguishes Brazilian modernism from its European ancestor. Described as “both Brazilian and universal” by Lauro Cavalcanti in his book When Brazil Was Modern, Brazilian modernist architectural heritage is a summation of the country’s economic might and prosperity at the time and the prolific contribution of a “brilliant generation of architects and intellectuals with ties to the cultural apparatus of the state, [which] transformed the style into a new language.”