“Pedagogia da engenharia”: Brasília arquitetada nos jornais (1956-1960)

Abstract

The work plan "PEDAGOGY OF ENGINEERING": BRASÍLIA ARCHITECTED IN NEWSPAPERS (1956-1960) aims to present the new capital as an imaginary construction of multiple meanings in graphic parks – even before its inauguration in "concrete" on April 21, 1960 – and to promote a debate to extend the notions of architecture and engineering, admitting them as expressions not only physical, but also narrative, of power and symbolism of a people, a city or political regime, considering the study and analysis of journalistic sources produced at the time of the Brasilia edification (1956-1960). To do so, we use the concepts of modernity and modernist city, from James Holston (1993) and Marshall Berman (2007), among other titles on the historiography of the Juscelino Kubitschek’s synthesis. The methodological approach is grounded in analysis of contemporary bibliographies on the history of architecture and engineering, in a diachronic perspective that goes through Brazil and gets out in the world. Preliminarily, it was concluded that, in any case, “saying” becomes “doing”, and the "written city" is as real as the one upraised by the “candangos”. The importance of this study for the literary field is that it interrelates, in a theoretically prolific way, the research and the teaching, the print journalism and the recent history of our country.