IN THE PATH OF THE “IN-BETWEEN“:
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FROM BUBER TO VAN EYCK AND FROM AMSTERDAM TO SÃO PAULO
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Anat Falbel (Brazil)
S02 S03 To face the challenge proposed by the 15th Docomomo Meeting Metamorphosis. The Continuity of Change I would like to recover the concept of the “in-between” introduced in the CIAM’ vocabulary in the organization’s key moment, and trace its emergence in Brazilian soil as a repercussion of Aldo van Eyck’s writings and works published particularly in the Dutch Forum magazine. Effectively philosopher Martin Buber’s elaboration on the “in-between” was introduced in the CIAM discussions following the humanist spirit brought in since CIAM 8 (1951) by Siegfried Giedion, who himself was a reader of Buber’s work as proven either by the German title Architecktur und Gemeinschaft (1956) or the English version entitled Architecture you and me. The diary of development (1958). Nevertheless the concept of “in-between” was advanced in Sigtuna (1952) by two young Swiss - Rolf Gutmann and Theo Mantz - who associated the relational space implied in the notion of Habitat with Buber’s formulation of the “in-between” as the space of the encounter and dialogue. However, although the marks left in the further elaborations of the Team 10 members, it was Aldo van Eyck who would fully incorporated the concept in his theoretical and design work enhancing its spatial dimension with Buber’s professor Georg Simmel’s formulations developed in “Bridge and Door” (1909) as exemplified by the Municipal Orphanage in Amsterdam (1955-1957). Based on archival material, as well the writings and projects developed by architects João Batista Vilanova Artigas and Lina Bo Bardi between the 1950s and the 1960s, I intend to demonstrate that beyond affinities and a cultural atmosphere van Eyck’s design and intellectual production mediated the translation of the “in-between” concept in Brazil as manifested in two public spaces that until today embody the idea of the encounter and the dialogue: Artigas’s design for the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism/ FAUUSP (1961-1969), and Lina’s SESC Pompéia (1977-1986). In this sense, conforming to the discussion proposed by the sub theme Identity, dedicated to a new sense of community Anat Falbel In the Path of the “In-between“
and solidarity in the urban and social fabric I intend to reaffirm the still validity of the “in between” as a theoretical tool not only in the design but particularly in the critical analysis of the contemporaneous space understood as a relational space… or “place”, as was once suggested by van Eyck. BIOGRAPHY Anat Falbel Received her Ph. D in Architecture and Urbanism from the University of São Paulo, in 2003, with the thesis “Lucjan Korngold: the trajectory of an immigrant architect”, dealing with the subject of émigrés architects, between the 40’s and 60’s in the city of São Paulo. A Canadian Center of Architecture Visiting scholar (2013), she was also awarded Docomomo Summer Grant. She participated in the organization of Docomomo International Conference “Impressions Transatlantiques: le dialogue entre architectures nationale et étranger au Brésil, 1930-1960”, in Paris, 2005, as well the EAHN FAUSP Conference Architectural Electives Affinities: correspondences, transfers, inter/multidisciplinarity, 2013. Presently she is one of the organizers of the Urban Photography Film and Video EAHN Working group, and a member of the EAHN council board. In 2011 she curated the exhibitions “Exile and Modernity: The space of the foreigner in the city of Sao Paulo” and in 2013 “Vagabond Stars: Memories of the Jewish Theater in Brazil”. Presently she is a lecturer at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (FAU/UFRJ)
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