Modernità domestica: sperimentazioni nell'architettura di interni in Argentina e Brasile, 1920-1950
Between the 1920s and 1930s, the break with tradition led Europe into a period of intense architectural experimentation, which also influenced the evolution of domestic interior spaces. In this cultural context, many designers moved between the Americas and Europe, fostering an exchange of ideas tha...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2025 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) |
| Repositorio: | UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC |
| Idioma: | italiano |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/457664 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://hdl.handle.net/2117/457664 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Interior decoration - Brazil - 20th century Industrial design - Brazil - 20th century Latin America Domestic interiors XX century Industrial design Interiorisme - Brasil - S. XX Disseny industrial - Brasil- S. XX Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Arquitectura::Disseny::Interiorisme |
| Sumario: | Between the 1920s and 1930s, the break with tradition led Europe into a period of intense architectural experimentation, which also influenced the evolution of domestic interior spaces. In this cultural context, many designers moved between the Americas and Europe, fostering an exchange of ideas that promoted the spread of architectural modernity. These intellectual and creative exchanges materialized in a network of transatlantic publications, in magazines such as “Moderne Bauformen”, “7 Arts”, “L’Architecture d’Aujourd’hui”, in Gli elementi dell’architettura funzionale by Sartoris, A Decade of Contemporary Architecture by Giedion, Modern Architecture in Brazil by Mindlin, as well as in exhibitions that introduced South American projects into the European architectural debate. In the 1940s, various events sparked growing interest in Latin America, increasingly seen as a laboratory of design freedom, capable of generating new solutions for domestic space. After the Brazilian pavilion in New York in 1939, a key moment came with the Organic Design in Home Furnishings exhibition, held at MoMA in 1941, which for the first time included Latin American designers such as Julio Villalobos (Argentina), Bernard Rudofsky (Brazil), Xavier Guerrero (Mexico), and Román Fresnedo (Uruguay), marking an important opening toward Latin American architecture and design. Some countries, like Brazil — featured in the Brazil Builds exhibition — and Argentina, invited for the first time to the International Exhibition of Housing and Urbanism in Paris in 1947, became centers of international debate. Traditional materials and techniques began to blend with formal experimentation, giving rise to emblematic projects such as the Casa sobre el Arroyo by Amancio Williams and Delfina Gálvez, and the Casa de Vidro by Lina Bo Bardi. These works proposed an innovative and autonomous language, starting with the redefinition of interior spaces, thus contributing to the development of new forms of domestic space. |
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