A Vanguarda europeia e o ensino no Rio Grande do Sul: Repercussões de escolas centro-europeias de arquitetura no sul do país entre 1945 e 1951.

Abstract

The source of this study resided in the interest from architectural teaching and its renewal, that was translated in questions about the changes related with architecture and teaching that were promoted by the establishment of a modern movement tied to Europeans Vanguards. The objective was to advance in the comprehension of the changes in the architecture of Rio Grande do Sul promoted by the teaching from pioneers estate schools, based on the impendence idea by reinterpretation of methods and practices proposed by the schools of European vanguard – that was represented here by the elements extracted from the Vienna School of Decorative Arts and Bauhaus. For this, it was initially discussed about architecture and teaching renewal in Brazil and Rio Grande do Sul. Next, it was evidenced the transmission of renewal elements in architecture by the schools, either for the research of the curricula – from Escola Nacional de Belas Artes, Escola Politécnica de São Paulo, Instituto de Belas Artes do Rio Grande do Sul and Escola de Engenharia de Porto Alegre courses – as the presentation of some methods and practices used on the Rio Grande do Sul courses that was inclined to modernizations in the comprehension of form in the teaching and the practice of this discipline. After that, the repercussions promoted about the architectural projects from students and egresses from the courses of Rio Grande do Sul were investigated, based on the presence of elements that were vinculated to form constitution that has referred to modern history and to school precepts from European vanguard. When it observe the teach, it was verified a curricular renewal movement that was happened for different sources or origins, but that, at the end, was able to reach similar or equivalent results, bringing common points that supports on European vanguards precepts. When the products were analysed, can be verified formal expressions that are based in European vanguards, but have important differences related with the quality of the final form that was obtained.