De Machu Picchu a Brasília: el significado da rua contemporanea

From Machu Picchu to Brasilia: The meaning of the contemporary street

South America Colonization by Iberian conquers is considered one of the most important urbanization effort of world history. Without a doubts, that event change socioeconomic and spatial variables mainly, of the territory that was dominated.

Meanwhile, it wasn’t the only meddling since the history of this region had several manifestations of foreigner influences. From those events, this paper studies how Machu Picchu and Brasilia, cities that thrive in distant moments, can bring teachings to the understanding of contemporary urban configuration and public space appropriation

This work is modeled by a comparative analysis based on topoceptive theory (identification and orientation of the places). It looked at approaches of primary and secondary morphologic categories.

Preliminarily, it stands out that Machu Picchu and Brasilia not just keep the similarity of be UNESCO Cultural Patrimony of Mankind but at the same time others nuances as: choose a exceptional places to build them, identification of a clear sense of zoning, etc.

Meanwhile, from deviation of some centuries is also possible to evidence differences that can complement their configurations. In the sequence we come across head on the debate between indigenous vernacular architecture and modern architecture, since it believes that apparently ambiguity transformed the society, culture and configurations of the cities.

It is inferred from this perspective that we witness decline of the street’s life due ti harmful doubts come from abrupt junction of morphologic structures that, does not configure the spatiality of the cities.

This because we don’t conceive the option of a deep analysis that achieve the rescue of teachings from mistakes versus hits, space without occupation versus urbanity, forced imitative importations versus critical interpretations, etc.

As a partial conclusion, it can be said that