Rise of Popular Modernist Architecture in Brazil

Fernando Luiz Lara is professor of architecture at the Weitzman School of Design, University of Pennsylvania.

• List of IllustrationsForewordAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. The Time and Place of Architecture’s Popular Modernism2. Documenting Popular Modernism3. Reasons for Popular Modernism in Brazil4. Problematizing Popular Modernism5. Lessons from Popular ModernismNotesBibliographyIndex

“Makes a contribution to the field. It will surely have an impact on architectural studies in Brazil, as well as on the way in which Brazilian modernism is viewed worldwide. It continues important debates about architectural identity and expands debate about tradition, self-construction and the popularization of modern architecture.”—The Americas“Throw[s] light on the exceptional status of architectural modernism in Brazil.”—Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians“Fills an important gap in our understanding of the production of architecture by the population at large and, in this case, of the specific history of that production in Brazil. . . . Details the role of modern and paradigmatic architecture in that popular production; showing how architecture is seen, understood, and reproduced by the population at large.”—H-Net