Spatial Orders, Social Forms: Art and the City in Modern Brazil

A fascinating look at modernist urban planning and spatial theories in Brazilian 20th-century art and architecture

Exploring the intersections among art, architecture, and urbanism in Brazil from the 1920s through the 1960s, Adrian Anagnost shows how modernity was manifested in locally specific spatial forms linked to Brazil’s colonial and imperial past. Discussing the ways artists and architects understood urban planning as a tool to reorganize the world, control human action, and remedy s...