Paraná-based projects for the Euro Kursaal and the internationalization of Brazilian architecture in the 1970s

• Autor(a) principal: Januário, Isabella Caroline
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Outros Autores: Leão Rego, Renato, Salvador Petrucci Gnoato, Luis, Zanuzo Breda, Vinicius
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: arq.urb
• Texto Completo: https://revistaarqurb.com.br/arqurb/article/view/581
• topic: Curitiba; Arquitetura moderna; Difusão da arquitetura; Curitiba; Modern architecture; Architectural diffusion

The reception and appropriation of international ideas by Brazilian architects from 1960s on have barely been analyzed, differently from the national production from the first half of that century. The participation of Curitiba-based architects — Lubomir Ficinski, Roberto Gandolfi, Luiz Forte Netto, José Maria Gandolfi and Jaime Lerner — in the 1965 design competition for the Euro Kursaal Tourist Complex in San Sebastián, Spain, is an exemplary case and deserves reflection for its relevance and originality. Those professionals, having been awarded second prize, were invited to travel to Spain in order to prepare a new proposal in 1972, when the initial team split and two projects were submitted. The two final submissions ended up quite distinct from the first one. Considering the changes in the design strategy and based upon historical-interpretative method, this paper investigates the practical response of Curitiba-based architects to the international architectural theoretical propositions which they established contact with. By exploring the concept of 'architectural contact zones', the paper suggests, as a result, that the episodes experienced by those architects led to alternatives to the modernist ideal, moving towards the threshold of the postmodernist thought.