Papers by Ana Luiza Nobre
Cadernos Proarq, 2019
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Access for all: São Paulo's architectural infrastructures, edited by Andres Lepik and Daniel Talesnik (Park Books, in cooperation with Architekturmuseum der TU München), 2019
The text discusses a characteristic feature of contemporary architecture in São Paulo - the raisi... more The text discusses a characteristic feature of contemporary architecture in São Paulo - the raising of the buildings off the ground -, considering it both in relationship with a broader political/cultural context and within a lineage that has a turning point in Lina Bo Bardi's Masp/Museum of Art of São Paulo.
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I International Congress Colonial and Postcolonial Landscapes. Architecture, Cities, Infrastructure, 2019
The Bus Station Platform of Brasília (1957), by Lucio Costa (1902-1998), stands out as a unique w... more The Bus Station Platform of Brasília (1957), by Lucio Costa (1902-1998), stands out as a unique work in Brazilian architecture, whilst still underestimated. While Oscar Niemeyer’s palaces sit on a concrete slab that prevent direct contact with the ground, and the apartment buildings in the so-called superquadras (superblocks) are raised on Corbusean pilotis that keep the ground free, the Bus Station – located exactly at the two intersecting axes that give birth to the new Brazilian capital - merges with the ground, shuffles the boundaries between architecture, landscape and infrastructure and turns out to be almost invisible, both in physical and historiographical terms.
Due to this rooting in the ground and its overall horizontality, the Platform builds an impressive and unmatched modern space, one that seems closely related to an automobile-oriented city and to a notion of landscape that is essentially American.
On closer inspection, however, it is not difficult to find traces of the colonial past of Brazil in the Platform. Particularly when we consider some urban operations that had a profound impact in the landscape of Rio de Janeiro, the former capital which served as administrative core of the Kingdom of Portugal for 13 years (1808-1822).
Our aim here is to explore the possible affinities between Brasília’s Bus Station Platform and infrastructure works related to Portuguese colonial policy in Brazil, from one side, and to a notion of landscape that was growing in the 1960’s in America, from another. To what extent have earthworks that shaped Rio de Janeiro’s landscape in its colonial period fueled the imagination of an architect such as Lucio Costa, and particulary the project of a key work for Brazilian architecture such as the Bus Station Platform of Brasília? To what extent this project reflects the apex and limits of the colonial logic in Portuguese America? And to what extent it recasts an American notion of landscape? Is the limited attention this project has received so far - specially in Northern countries – related to an Eurocentric approach of the Americas that remains rather unchanged? These are some of the questions this paper wants to address, while engaging in the call to rethink colonial and postcolonial cities and landscapes.
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This paper discusses the tragedy of the fire at Rio de Janeiro’s 200-year-old National Museum - B... more This paper discusses the tragedy of the fire at Rio de Janeiro’s 200-year-old National Museum - Brazil’s oldest and most important historical and scientific museum - relating it to the new museums built in the city as part of the city marketing strategies related to the Olympic Games of 2016.
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Muros de Ar, Biennale di Venezia, 2018
Publicado em "Muros de Ar" ("Walls of Air"), catálogo do Pavilhão do Brasil, 16. Mostra Interna... more Publicado em "Muros de Ar" ("Walls of Air"), catálogo do Pavilhão do Brasil, 16. Mostra Internazionale di Architettura, Biennale di Venezia, 2018
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Walls of Air, Biennale di Venezia, 2018
Published in "Muros de Ar" ("Walls of Air"), catalogue of Brazilian Pavilion, 16. Mostra Interna... more Published in "Muros de Ar" ("Walls of Air"), catalogue of Brazilian Pavilion, 16. Mostra Internazionale di Architettura, Biennale di Venezia, 2018
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Counter-conducts. Political pedagogical action, 2017
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III Enanparq, 2014
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Published in "Brazil restructuring the urban", special issue of "Architectural Design" , guest-ed... more Published in "Brazil restructuring the urban", special issue of "Architectural Design" , guest-edited by Hattie Hartman (03, vol. 86, 2016)
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Plot, 2015
The paper is part of a research about the architectural and urban transformations related to the ... more The paper is part of a research about the architectural and urban transformations related to the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and includes a timeline with important events, economic indicators and projects from 2009 to 2016.
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Celeuma, 2014
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Projeto Design , May 2011
Entrevista a Paul Nakazawa.
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Blucher Design Proceedings, 2014
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O Globo, Nov 4, 2010
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Risco: Revista de Pesquisa em Arquitetura e Urbanismo (Online), 2007
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Actas do 1o Colóquio Internacional de Arquitectura Popular, 2013
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Brasil em movimento: reflexões a partir dos protestos de junho / org. Maria Borba, Natasha Felizi e João Paulo Reys, 2014
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Lucio Costa: Brasilia's superquadra / edited by Farès el-Dahdah, 2005
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Papers by Ana Luiza Nobre
Due to this rooting in the ground and its overall horizontality, the Platform builds an impressive and unmatched modern space, one that seems closely related to an automobile-oriented city and to a notion of landscape that is essentially American.
On closer inspection, however, it is not difficult to find traces of the colonial past of Brazil in the Platform. Particularly when we consider some urban operations that had a profound impact in the landscape of Rio de Janeiro, the former capital which served as administrative core of the Kingdom of Portugal for 13 years (1808-1822).
Our aim here is to explore the possible affinities between Brasília’s Bus Station Platform and infrastructure works related to Portuguese colonial policy in Brazil, from one side, and to a notion of landscape that was growing in the 1960’s in America, from another. To what extent have earthworks that shaped Rio de Janeiro’s landscape in its colonial period fueled the imagination of an architect such as Lucio Costa, and particulary the project of a key work for Brazilian architecture such as the Bus Station Platform of Brasília? To what extent this project reflects the apex and limits of the colonial logic in Portuguese America? And to what extent it recasts an American notion of landscape? Is the limited attention this project has received so far - specially in Northern countries – related to an Eurocentric approach of the Americas that remains rather unchanged? These are some of the questions this paper wants to address, while engaging in the call to rethink colonial and postcolonial cities and landscapes.
Drafts by Ana Luiza Nobre
Due to this rooting in the ground and its overall horizontality, the Platform builds an impressive and unmatched modern space, one that seems closely related to an automobile-oriented city and to a notion of landscape that is essentially American.
On closer inspection, however, it is not difficult to find traces of the colonial past of Brazil in the Platform. Particularly when we consider some urban operations that had a profound impact in the landscape of Rio de Janeiro, the former capital which served as administrative core of the Kingdom of Portugal for 13 years (1808-1822).
Our aim here is to explore the possible affinities between Brasília’s Bus Station Platform and infrastructure works related to Portuguese colonial policy in Brazil, from one side, and to a notion of landscape that was growing in the 1960’s in America, from another. To what extent have earthworks that shaped Rio de Janeiro’s landscape in its colonial period fueled the imagination of an architect such as Lucio Costa, and particulary the project of a key work for Brazilian architecture such as the Bus Station Platform of Brasília? To what extent this project reflects the apex and limits of the colonial logic in Portuguese America? And to what extent it recasts an American notion of landscape? Is the limited attention this project has received so far - specially in Northern countries – related to an Eurocentric approach of the Americas that remains rather unchanged? These are some of the questions this paper wants to address, while engaging in the call to rethink colonial and postcolonial cities and landscapes.