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About me

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     I´m a architecture student, actually I´am in my last year of the carrer. My main interests are the public space, architectural desing, graphic representation and photography.  I have work experience in technical drawing, also I work in Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, SketchUp, Microsoft Office (Excel, Word and Outlook). As an architecture student I think one the most important way to lear about architecture is travel. In the future I would like to do a master´s degree in landscaping desingn.  

Brutalist Architecture in Brazil

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Museu de Arte de Sao Paulo - Lina Bo Bardi In Brazil, the brutalist trend starts from the early 1950s in buildings in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo.The beginning of the brutalist trend in Brazil is simultaneous to the design and construction of the capital, Brasilia. In the early 1950s the architect João Batista Vilanova Artigas gradually begins to use exposed concrete structures in São Paulo. Artigas and others mature architects of that moment started to adopt the brutalist language in their works. Some Brutalist Architects in Brazil  Vilanova Artigas  Vilanova Artigas (June 23, 1915 – January 12, 1985) was one of the most important Brazilian modernist architects, and the founding figure of the Paulista School. Artigas' work shows an obvious influence from Frank Lloyd Wright in residential design adopting an International Style grammar (curtain walls, pilotis) for larger projects; and from the 1960s and 1970s his personal, dramatic ...

What is Brutalist Architecture?

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Liverpool Metropolitan Cathederal Brutalist architecture  started from the 1950s to the mid-1970s.  The term originates from the French word for "raw", as Le Corbusier  described his choice of material béton   brut , meaning raw concrete in French.   Architects Alison and Peter Smithson are believed to have coined the term "Brutalism" in the 1950s. Brutalism is an architectural style featuring bold, structurally innovative forms that use raw concrete as their primary material. Brutalist buildings often reveal the means of their construction through unfinished surfaces that bear the imprints of the molds that shaped them. Brutalist building materials also include brick, glass, steel, rough-hewn stone, and gabions. Conversely, not all buildings exhibiting an exposed concrete exterior can be considered Brutalist, and may belong to one of a range of architectural styles including Constructivism, International Style, Expressionism, Postmodernism, and...