Banca de DEFESA: Fábio Chamon Melo

Uma banca de DEFESA de MESTRADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : Fábio Chamon Melo
DATE: 16/04/2024
TIME: 14:00
LOCAL: Videoconferência - https://ppgfau.unb.br/component/agenda/agendas
TITLE:

Furniture, Art and Space: The Palacian interiors of the National Congress (1957-1978)

KEY WORDS:

National Congress. Modernism. Architecture. Furniture. Art. Cultural Heritage

PAGES: 177
BIG AREA: Ciências Sociais Aplicadas
AREA: Arquitetura e Urbanismo
SUMMARY:

This dissertation research project has as its object the palatial interiors of the National Congress, whose constructive path begins in 1960, in the light of the modernism of the architect Oscar Niemeyer, traversing its transformative history during the 70s and glimpsing, finally, its perspectives of preservation as a heritage asset to be safeguarded. The National Congress, as a substance rich in academic research, has an interesting repertoire of academic research that has already been consolidated, but there are still gaps to be overcome in the study of its interiors. By interiors we mean the articulation of the Palace's internal spatiality, its materiality, its furniture and works of art which, at the end of the design process, form a single, inseparable whole. Among the palaces in Brasília, which have collections of great value for modern Brazilian historiography, the choice by the Congress is justified by being Niemeyer's most publicly accessible institutional work in Brasília, including his favorite, as he stated; for the complexity of the juxtaposition of two legislative houses (Chamber of Deputies and Federal Senate) in a single building and for containing furniture and works of art specially created for the spatial composition by great masters, consubstantiating a unique synthesis of knowledge and, why not, experiments. The production of this knowledge in a methodologically structured way, enriched by access to primary documentary sources from the archives of the Congress itself, as well as from other notorious collections, aims to trace its constructive history through the articulation of the trinomial: architecture, art and furniture, aiming to qualify the protection of these assets interiors in order to guarantee their safeguard. Examining the interiors of the National Congress, over the course of the first two decades, is crucial to understanding the transformation from a solemn administrative interior in 1960 to the palatial interior that will emerge in the following decade. In the 1970s, after the internal re-inauguration, the desirable sophistication not achieved in the internal features was achieved until then. Niemeyer's two main unexecuted preliminary projects, the past interiors, appear as a necessary complementary object of study, in order to compare them with the solution that would materialize over the following years. Of interest in this opportunity were the great noble halls, the plenary sessions, and political-representative spaces focusing on specific clippings of great transformations, whose general result of the two inaugural decades lasts until the moment. Profiling the architectural space, its materiality, furniture and art in a line of research will encourage subsidies for the development of precautionary policies in order to ensure the preservation of these assets that were bequeathed to us.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Presidente - ***.669.608-** - SYLVIA FICHER - UnB
Interna - 2570410 - ANA ELISABETE DE ALMEIDA MEDEIROS
Interno - 1724264 - EDUARDO PIERROTTI ROSSETTI
Externa à Instituição - MARIA CECILIA LOSCHIAVO DOS SANTOS - USP