How Brazil’s Modern Architecture Revolution impacted Europe and Africa

Ana Cristina Dos Santos Tostões

doi:10.6092/issn.2611-0075/10594

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Ana Cristina Dos Santos Tostões Associate Professor Technical University of Lisbon IST, Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering University of Technology Lisbon

Ana Tostões was born in 1959 in Lisbon where she lives. She is an architect (ESBAL, 1982), architecture historian (UNL, 1994) and chair of DOCOMOMO International. She has been coordinating the master’s degree in architecture (2007-2009) and she is the architecture focus area IST- École Polytechnique de Lausanne (EPFL) Phd program responsible.
Her research field is the history of architecture and the city of the twentieth century, in which she develops an operative view oriented towards the conservation of modern architecture, focusing especially on post-war architectural culture and relations between Iberian, African and American modernity.
On these topics she has published books and scientific articles and organised exhibitions: Portugal: Architektur im 20. Jahrhundert (Deutsche Architektur Museum, Frankfurt, 1997); Keil do Amaral, o arquitecto e o humanista (1999); Arquitectura Moderna Portuguesa 1920-1970, um património para conhecer e salvaguardar (Oporto, Lisbon, Évora, Coimbra, 2001-2004); Arquitectura e Cidadania. Atelier Nuno Teotónio Pereira (2004); Biblioteca Nacional.Exterior/Interior (2004); Gulbenkian Headquarters and Museum, The architecture of the 60s (2006); Lisboa 1758: The Baixa Plan Today (2008).
She has participated in several scientific conferences and given lectures in European, American and African universities. She has formed part of juries and scientific committees and has been invited as an expert to several awards. She is a member of ICOMOS for the modern heritage, formed part of the Advisory Council for IPPAR (Instituto Português do Património Arquitectónico) and was scientific assessor of IPPAR for the Inventário da Arquitectura do Movimento Moderno, on which she worked in collaboration with Iberian DOCOMOMO.
She was member of the Scientific Committee at the fifth Iberian DOCOMOMO Congress (2005), was scientific coordinator of the “IAPXX-Survey of 20th Century Architecture in Portugal” (2004-2006), has contributed as an architecture critic to the Jornal Público, was vice-president of the Portuguese section of AICA (the International Association of Art Critics) and is currently vice-president of the Ordem dos Arquitectos. In 2006 the President of the Portuguese Republic awarded her the honourary title of Commander of the Ordem do Infante D. Henrique in recognition of her contribution to the dissemination of knowledge about architecture.

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https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.2611-0075/10594

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Modern Brazilian Architecture, Portuguese Architecture, Angola and Mozambique Architects

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After WWII, magazines turned to fundamental sources for the dissemination of the modern avant-garde project. In this context, the discovery of modern Brazilian architecture through the media by the younger generation of Portuguese architects had enormous consequences for architectural culture. In fact, this modern Brazilian expression became a sign of hope and of future possibilities for the Portuguese architects who used it as a reference to heroically combat the Estado Novo’s regime of censorship. This essay analyses how this information was received and articulated, and how it became an anchor for modern creation in Portugal and its colonies in Angola and Mozambique.

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