Objects of poetic reaction in the University City of Caracas: Brazilian and Corbusian influence
Based on the study of bibliographic, planimetric and photographic sources, this article focuses on the analysis of a group of buildings designed by Carlos Raul Villanueva in the University City of Caracas –during the 1950s– under the principles of Biomorphism, a renewing approach of the late 19th an...
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I15-R196-article-5052025-12-19T12:33:19Z Objects of poetic reaction in the University City of Caracas: Brazilian and Corbusian influence Objetos de reacción poética en la Ciudad Universitaria de Caracas: La influencia brasileña y lecorbusieriana Chávez Herrera, Moisés Orlando Carlos Raúl Villanueva Le Corbusier Oscar Niemeyer Ciudad Universitaria de Caracas biomorfismo Carlos Raul Villanueva Le Corbusier Oscar Niemeyer University City of Caracas biomorphism Based on the study of bibliographic, planimetric and photographic sources, this article focuses on the analysis of a group of buildings designed by Carlos Raul Villanueva in the University City of Caracas –during the 1950s– under the principles of Biomorphism, a renewing approach of the late 19th and early 20th century through which the predominance of objectivist and rationalist thinking was refuted and diversified, influencing architecture with a varied repertoire of sensitive, curved and irregular forms that acted as translations of the architect's imagination and his intuitive, free and poetic rhetoric. It is interesting here to trace and demonstrate the links of these ideas and those university buildings with the preceding concepts and models –such as Le Corbusier's objets à réaction poètique, introduced from painting in many of his modern architectural developments–, and their subsequent contemporary re-semanticization, also evaluating the Brazilian models, especially those developed by Oscar Niemeyer –another of the main exponents of an architecture characterized by these forms also seen as sensual and feminine– within the scope of renewal in 20th century architecture’s expressive codes. Con base en el estudio de fuentes bibliográficas, planimétricas y fotográficas, este artículo se centra en el análisis de un grupo de edificaciones proyectadas por Carlos Raúl Villanueva en la Ciudad Universitaria de Caracas –durante los años cincuenta– bajo los principios del biomorfismo, un renovador enfoque de finales del siglo XIX y comienzos del XX a través del cual se refutaba y diversificaba el predominio del pensamiento objetivista y racionalista, incidiendo en la arquitectura con un variado repertorio de formas sensibles, curvas e irregulares que actuaron como traducción de la imaginación del arquitecto y de su retórica intuitiva, libre y poética. Interesa aquí trazar y demostrar los vínculos de estas ideas y aquellas edificaciones universitarias con los conceptos y modelos antecedentes –como los objets à réaction poètique de Le Corbusier, introducidos desde la pintura en muchos de sus desarrollos arquitectónicos modernos–, y su posterior resemantización contemporánea, también evaluando los modelos brasileños, especialmente los desarrollados por Oscar Niemeyer –otro de los principales exponentes de una arquitectura caracterizada por estas formas también vistas como sensuales y femeninas–, en el ámbito de la renovación de los códigos expresivos de la arquitectura del siglo XX. Facultad de Arquitectura, Planeamiento y Diseño | Universidad Nacional de Rosario 2025-12-06 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion text/html application/epub+zip application/pdf https://www.ayp.fapyd.unr.edu.ar/index.php/ayp/article/view/505 10.35305/23626097v12i23.505 A&P Continuidad; Vol. 12 Núm. 23 (2025): ARCHIVOS DE ARQUITECTURA Y URBANISMO EN AMÉRICA LATINA: CONFIGURACIONES Y VIVENCIAS INTERNAS 2362-6097 2362-6089 spa https://www.ayp.fapyd.unr.edu.ar/index.php/ayp/article/view/505/720 https://www.ayp.fapyd.unr.edu.ar/index.php/ayp/article/view/505/721 https://www.ayp.fapyd.unr.edu.ar/index.php/ayp/article/view/505/743 Derechos de autor 2025 A&P Continuidad http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 |
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Based on the study of bibliographic, planimetric and photographic sources, this article focuses on the analysis of a group of buildings designed by Carlos Raul Villanueva in the University City of Caracas –during the 1950s– under the principles of Biomorphism, a renewing approach of the late 19th and early 20th century through which the predominance of objectivist and rationalist thinking was refuted and diversified, influencing architecture with a varied repertoire of sensitive, curved and irregular forms that acted as translations of the architect's imagination and his intuitive, free and poetic rhetoric. It is interesting here to trace and demonstrate the links of these ideas and those university buildings with the preceding concepts and models –such as Le Corbusier's objets à réaction poètique, introduced from painting in many of his modern architectural developments–, and their subsequent contemporary re-semanticization, also evaluating the Brazilian models, especially those developed by Oscar Niemeyer –another of the main exponents of an architecture characterized by these forms also seen as sensual and feminine– within the scope of renewal in 20th century architecture’s expressive codes. |
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