MUBAM: Museu Brasileiro de Arquitetura Moderna

Abstract

To address a moment of European housing crisis post World War I, modernist architectural productions were born. In Brazil, the assimilation of the modern movement in the first third of the 20th century did not have the same European social character but rather an ideal of monumentality, as seen in the Brasília project by Lúcio Costa and Oscar Niemeyer. Gradually, brazilian architects began to use modern architecture as a revolution in the housing thought of the working class, and modern public spaces were used as a stage for social debates. It was in this context that the main figures of brazilian modernism designed their renowned works, such as the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism of the University of São Paulo by João Batista Vilanova Artigas. Therefore, this work aimed to gather the main contributions of the modernist movement, especially in Brazil, in order to support the exhibition design of a Brazilian Museum of Modern Architecture. The result is the intention of an architectural project that celebrates, disseminates, encourages and democratizes the brazilian modern architectural heritage.