Acrópole magazine: data visualization, strategies and approaches to Brazilian architecture
Acrópole magazine; data visualization; digital tools; Brazilian architecture; Digital Humanities
This thesis faces the challenge of studying Acrópole magazine as a documentary source to build graphic supports for data visualization, developing new strategies to study Brazilian architecture. By exploiting the immense information content of Acrópole magazine with digital technologies, it is possible to overcome the usual way of using and leafing through the magazine. This Thesis proposes approximations between the field of architecture and current technologies. Browsing and tracking are complementary actions in this research in which Acrópole was taken as a support to use digital tools such as Notion, Google Earth, Palladio, RAWGraphs, Flourish and LookerStudio in order to generate graphic supports for data visualization and dashboards. From the indexing of the content and works of all editions of the magazine and the deepening of the 24 magazines selected by Eduardo Corona in the last edition, it is possible to extract quantitative information and generate qualitative data, taking this digitized content to build new layers of information not text about architecture and about the magazine itself. Exploring the content of the Acropolis in this way, the Thesis also integrates with the strategies, studies and research of Digital Humanities, contributing to research on magazines and research on the history of Brazilian architecture.