Pedregulho : o sonho pioneiro da habitação popular no Brasil / Alfredo Britto ; com Flávia Brito do Nascimento e Renato Lemos.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Britto, Alfredo, 1935-

Contributor:

Nascimento, Flávia Brito do.

Lemos, Renato

Perkins Architectural Rare Book Fund.

Language:

English

Portuguese

Subjects (All):

Pedregulho (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil).

Dwellings--Brazil--Rio de Janeiro--Design and construction.

Dwellings.

Architecture, Domestic--Brazil--Rio de Janeiro.

Architecture, Domestic.

Housing--Brazil--Rio de Janeiro--History--20th century.

Housing.

History.

Brazil--Rio de Janeiro.

Physical Description:

177 pages : illustrations (some color), plans, portraits ; 30 cm

Place of Publication:

Rio de Janeiro : Edições de Janeiro, [2015]

Language Note:

In Portuguese and English.

Summary:

More than an icon of Brazilian modern architecture, Pedregulho is the realization of a dream born in the Department of Housing of the former Municipality of the People's Federal District, Rio de Janeiro, created in the 1940s. The project "Pedregulho" arose from the commitment and partnership of the engineer and urban planner Carmen Portinho and architect Affonso Eduardo Reidy, the Conjunto Residencial Mayor Mendes de Moraes (known as Pedregulho), is located in the district of Benfica, in Rio de Janeiro, on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro. It is a bold and innovative social housing project that has adjacent to housing services such as communal laundry, nursery, health center and market. After decades of neglect a restoration process was initiated in 2011, which, besides recovering the architectural heritage, gives self-esteem to their residents and rescues the original spirit of pioneering and flagship project. In 1947, only one year after being conceived, Affonso Eduardo Reidy's project was in the pages of the prestigious American magazine "The Architectural Magazine of Building.

Contents:

Prefacio. Predegulho: da concepção a realidade = From conception to reality / Augusto Ivan Freitas Pinheiro

Capítulo 1. Moradias para o Rio de Janeiro: o Departamento de Habitação Popular do Prefeitura (1940-1962) = Chapter 1 Houses for Rio: City Hall's Popular Housing Department (1940-1962) / Flávia Brito do Nascimento

Capítulo 2. A concretização de um ideal = Chapter 2. Fullfilment of an ideal / Alberto Britto

Capítulo 3. Um caminho sinuoso = Chapter 3. A sinuous path / Alfredo Britto

Capítulo 4. Pedregulgho: uma paisagem humana = Chapter 4. Pedregulho: a human landscape / Renato Lemos

Para além de paisagem carioca: Caminhos que se cruzam + Beyond the carioca landscape: intersecting pathway.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 176-177).

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Perkins Architectural Rare Book Fund.

ISBN:

9788567854687

8567854687

OCLC:

928035416