{"id":168298,"date":"2014-12-29T18:43:06","date_gmt":"2014-12-29T20:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/?p=168298"},"modified":"2016-01-21T12:58:08","modified_gmt":"2016-01-21T14:58:08","slug":"social-progressive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/social-progressive\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Progressive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-168299 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Cine-Comuni_05_2JG1854_1-201x300.jpg\" alt=\"Cine Comuni_05_2JG1854_1\" width=\"201\" height=\"300\" \/>Jo\u00e3o Batista Vilanova Artigas and Paulo Mendes da Rocha were professors at the School of Architecture and Urban Studies (FAU-USP) and advocates of a progressive architecture that was socially responsible and who left in their wake an agenda for Brazil. Artigas is considered to have been a central figure in the so-called \u201cS\u00e3o Paulo architecture,\u201d that flourished during the turbulent years of the 1960s and 1970s. He was responsible for the symbolic building occupied by the FAU, which was designed to be an edifice that cannot be closed up and that encourages people to engage in fellowship with each other. \u201cYou become infected by the shape, and so no one who studies there can produce mediocre, insignificant architecture,\u201d says Professor Alvaro Puntoni, who worked at the Vilanova Artigas Foundation. Puntoni\u2019s \u201cmaster\u201d was the proponent of a unique, humanistic way of teaching the subject, based on the principal of \u201ccalling upon the necessary bodies of knowledge (philosophical and technological) and with a very clear idea of generosity and the duty to share that knowledge with new generations.\u201d For his part, Mendes da Rocha, one of the most recognized disciples of Artigas\u2019s work, was the second Brazilian to win the Pritzker Architecture Prize, the world\u2019s most important award in architecture, in 2006\u2014the first was Oscar Niemeyer. The award served as recognition of the importance of S\u00e3o Paulo architecture, which placed greater emphasis on intelligent construction and less on exuberant forms. Professor Milton Braga, also from the FAU, had already worked with Mendes da Rocha on projects ranging from the Avenida Rebou\u00e7as corridor in 1995, to the 18-story SESC 24 de Maio building under construction in the historical center of S\u00e3o Paulo. \u201cHe was always concerned about technical construction in Brazil. If in the 20<sup>th<\/sup> century there was regional disorganization, the 21<sup>st<\/sup> century agenda that calls for a focus on the major cities persists,\u201d he explains. In other words, the teachings of \u201cmasters\u201d like Artigas and Mendes da Rocha left to subsequent generations the lesson that it\u2019s not enough to build houses; we have to equip cities with sufficient transportation, accessible sidewalks, and an attractive urban environment so that they can be more human.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Teachers promote the idea that cities should be more human and accessible","protected":false},"author":475,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[165],"tags":[203,241],"coauthors":[785],"class_list":["post-168298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humanities","tag-architecture","tag-history"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/475"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168298\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168298"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=168298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}