| Title |
Cultural Transformation in Brasil and Modern Architecture |
| Keywords |
Cultural Transition ; Brasil Architecture ; Brasil Baroque ; Brasil Modernism |
| Abstract |
A culture evolves into the historical profundity through reiterated genetic transformations. Subordinated to the web of cultural cross-over, the architectures of the world grope for regional negotiations. In this genetic framework, a dominant or a recessive genotype is selected and converged into consilient mutation. Although generally based on the Baroque art and literature, the Brazilian Architecture in colonial period was mutated by 1) complicated racial mixture, 2) religious culture imported with African slaves, 3) Brazil-Baroque tuned into the inner rhythm. Brazil chose the western refinement without hesitation instead of the vernacular wildness when this Baroque protoplasm was conflicted with the modernization process. The changing motives in the negotiation between the liberation and globalization were -similar to the most of the third world countries- formed upon the unstable social foundation from the propaganda and vulnerable economy. Brazil, however, has the constancy of sunray, shade of trees, soil, scenery, inherent laziness, optimism, and lyricism of scale. The Brazil Modernism differs from the general modernity in that it has been evolved through supplementary lessons from the modern architecture on the seedbed of this Brazilian constancy. |