Discurso e Matéria: Paradigmas sobre a Criação da Forma

Abstract

This study works from the basis that architectonic form is a type of knowledge where scientific and artistic ideas conjoin. In any period of history under study, architectural form and space consciously or unconsciously materialize the mental structure of a cultural system. Developing these hypotheses, the research’s main objective was to identify the dialectic between tradition and innovation in the process of generating architectural form. Through an investigation of the architecture produced in Rio de Janeiro between 1930 and 1957, the research demonstrated how past images and experiences were incorporated, transformed and reformulated, serving as the underpinning for the emergence of new architectural forms. With a basis in formal synthesis, the study identified composite principles, geometric and symbolic aspects which demonstrate an underlying organization and a system of established values where architectural forms reveal the ambiguities between discourse and materiality.