Aspectos da Habitação Urbana: Um olhar crítico de Mayumi Souza Lima à construção de Brasília

Abstract

The construction of the University of Brasilia runs parallel to the construction of the city. And as a starting point three courses started to work in 1962, Architecture and Urbanism is one of them. Among it faculty, besides the famous names like Niemeyer and Lelé, we have the passage of several recent graduates, seeking the teaching career in the Master course offered by CEPLAN. Mayumi Watanabe Souza Lima architect graduated from FAUUSP is one of them. Her dissertation “Aspects of Urban Housing” resulted in addition to theoretical work in a model building project for the superquadra, which in the early 1960s questions the urban model of Brasilia while it was under construction. In addition to the revision his master's work makes a project proposition in response to the concerns of his time, the towers of the São Miguel Neighborhood Unit. Although they are exemplary of Mayumi's initial work, they constitute a proposal of an innovative character in the design of the project, in the constructive proposition and in the shape of the building, which differs from the proposals in lamina. Burdened with little (or unknown) cultural significance, which ascribes values from the outset to the interpretative potential of tower buildings, the project she devised for Brasilia and the other masters of the 1960s was discontinued in October 1965, by the collective dismissal of faculty and instructors at the University, but remains a still silent witness to the history of the Federal Capital for over 50 years.