Surveying essences, producing culture: virgin landscapes and the architectural reinvention of the late Portuguese empire
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Resumo: | Discoursively glocal architectures play a key role in today’s architectural norms and forms. This is also the case in Portugal where modern pedigreed architecture harnesses some form of local tradition and cultural reification as credentials. This article argues this is partly rooted in the cultural discourses developed within the post-war colonial project of the Portuguese dictatorship (Estado Novo), intersecting modernization with imperial reorganization, and in which architectural modernist ideals of autonomy and liberty played a direct role. The article contends the appropriation of these ideals needs to be considered in a double light: as a sign of progress for a professional elite and as a new mask for an old and violent system of inequality.The article explores the colonial infra-structuring of post-war architectural knowledge, questioning the role of “virgin” landscapes in re-creating professional practice rallied by colonial modernization. The article examines how ethnographic processes were integrated into architectural creation, inspiring “culturally committed” forms of “Portuguese” modernismand imperialism. Offering a critique and cultural debate of the entanglements between architecture, anthropology, nation and empire, the article aims to contribute to architecture’s political history and to debates on the role of modern spatial practices in the creation of racial categories.Keywords: Architecture, ethnography, modernism, colonialism. |
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Surveying essences, producing culture: virgin landscapes and the architectural reinvention of the late Portuguese empireDiscoursively glocal architectures play a key role in today’s architectural norms and forms. This is also the case in Portugal where modern pedigreed architecture harnesses some form of local tradition and cultural reification as credentials. This article argues this is partly rooted in the cultural discourses developed within the post-war colonial project of the Portuguese dictatorship (Estado Novo), intersecting modernization with imperial reorganization, and in which architectural modernist ideals of autonomy and liberty played a direct role. The article contends the appropriation of these ideals needs to be considered in a double light: as a sign of progress for a professional elite and as a new mask for an old and violent system of inequality.The article explores the colonial infra-structuring of post-war architectural knowledge, questioning the role of “virgin” landscapes in re-creating professional practice rallied by colonial modernization. The article examines how ethnographic processes were integrated into architectural creation, inspiring “culturally committed” forms of “Portuguese” modernismand imperialism. Offering a critique and cultural debate of the entanglements between architecture, anthropology, nation and empire, the article aims to contribute to architecture’s political history and to debates on the role of modern spatial practices in the creation of racial categories.Keywords: Architecture, ethnography, modernism, colonialism.Faculty of Arts and Humanities of University of Porto |Centro de Estudos Africanos da Universidade do Porto2024-02-12info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttps://ojs.letras.up.pt/index.php/AfricanaStudia/article/view/13865Africana Studia; Vol. 1 No. 39 (2023): Paisagens Coloniais e Pós- Coloniais: Arquitetura, Cidades e InfraestruturasAfricana Studia; Vol. 1 N.º 39 (2023): Paisagens Coloniais e Pós- Coloniais: Arquitetura, Cidades e Infraestruturas0874-2375reponame:Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)instname:Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãoinstacron:RCAAPporhttps://ojs.letras.up.pt/index.php/AfricanaStudia/article/view/13865https://ojs.letras.up.pt/index.php/AfricanaStudia/article/view/13865/12467Direitos de Autor (c) 2024 Africana Studiainfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessLebre, Rui Aristides2024-02-17T07:38:19Zoai:ojs.letras.up.pt/ojs:article/13865Portal AgregadorONGhttps://www.rcaap.pt/oai/openaireopendoar:71602024-03-20T02:38:38.080811Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos) - Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãofalse |
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Surveying essences, producing culture: virgin landscapes and the architectural reinvention of the late Portuguese empire |
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Surveying essences, producing culture: virgin landscapes and the architectural reinvention of the late Portuguese empire |
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Surveying essences, producing culture: virgin landscapes and the architectural reinvention of the late Portuguese empire Lebre, Rui Aristides |
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Surveying essences, producing culture: virgin landscapes and the architectural reinvention of the late Portuguese empire |
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Surveying essences, producing culture: virgin landscapes and the architectural reinvention of the late Portuguese empire |
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Surveying essences, producing culture: virgin landscapes and the architectural reinvention of the late Portuguese empire |
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Lebre, Rui Aristides |
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Discoursively glocal architectures play a key role in today’s architectural norms and forms. This is also the case in Portugal where modern pedigreed architecture harnesses some form of local tradition and cultural reification as credentials. This article argues this is partly rooted in the cultural discourses developed within the post-war colonial project of the Portuguese dictatorship (Estado Novo), intersecting modernization with imperial reorganization, and in which architectural modernist ideals of autonomy and liberty played a direct role. The article contends the appropriation of these ideals needs to be considered in a double light: as a sign of progress for a professional elite and as a new mask for an old and violent system of inequality.The article explores the colonial infra-structuring of post-war architectural knowledge, questioning the role of “virgin” landscapes in re-creating professional practice rallied by colonial modernization. The article examines how ethnographic processes were integrated into architectural creation, inspiring “culturally committed” forms of “Portuguese” modernismand imperialism. Offering a critique and cultural debate of the entanglements between architecture, anthropology, nation and empire, the article aims to contribute to architecture’s political history and to debates on the role of modern spatial practices in the creation of racial categories.Keywords: Architecture, ethnography, modernism, colonialism. |
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Faculty of Arts and Humanities of University of Porto |Centro de Estudos Africanos da Universidade do Porto |
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Africana Studia; Vol. 1 No. 39 (2023): Paisagens Coloniais e Pós- Coloniais: Arquitetura, Cidades e Infraestruturas Africana Studia; Vol. 1 N.º 39 (2023): Paisagens Coloniais e Pós- Coloniais: Arquitetura, Cidades e Infraestruturas 0874-2375 reponame:Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos) instname:Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informação instacron:RCAAP |
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