Modern Architecture in Contemporary Belém: Research and Continuity

Abstract

The contemporary architecture in Belém since the 1980s has exposed through projects whose language and grammatical are aware of the history and context, a modernity that is not closed, instead, this denotes a speech, as spoken text in Modern Brazilian Architecture 1930-1960 by Carlos Eduardo Comas (2002). Whereby the construction, assertion and dissemination of this architecture enable connections between the tradition of avant-garde architecture of the modern movement and current design practices, as well attested in two buildings: the Federal Prosecutor (1985), architectural design by Alcyr Meira, Social Centre and St. Augustine (2002), M2p design architecture and engineering. These are tributaries of modern brazilian architecture, which was consolidated in Belém in the '70s, because to the maturity of a teaching project and professional actuated of modernist inflections. These architectures, taken as a research, continuity and revision, let us consider the modernity not as a style but as a support in contemporary architectural design of buildings. In fact, the work of architecture interacts with its modernists precedents, looking inward and expressing the tactility of construction in their desire to attend the program, and why not, to dominate the landscape. The buildings give speeches on the structures and aesthetics that strengthens.