ARCHITECTURE AND POLITICS IN BRAZIL: AN ENRICHING COUNTERPOINT

Abstract

Throughout the twentieth century the relationship between politics and architecture in Brazil was ambiguous, as it was in many other Latin American countries. Roberto Segre, Argentinean architect and historian, approaches in this article the case of one great southern country, in which politicians, who had no clear consciousness of the importance of state monuments as everlasting icons, have promoted paradigmatic works, such as the Education and Health Ministry designed by Lucio Costa and Osear Niemeyer, and many others.