Drifts and Derivations

The different Brazilian and Chilean architectural concepts that form the subject of this exhibition and the book share a humanistic, visionary basis in their way of approaching the connection between public space and community life, topography and urbanism. This is reflected in either the drawings, texts and architectural models by Flavio de Carvalho (1899-1973), Juan Borchers (1910-1975), Lina Bo Bardi (1914-1992), Roberto Matta (1911-2002), and Sergio Bernardes (1919-2002), and in the collective type of educational experience developed by the School of Valparaiso. Poet-architects, inspired by a growing impulse towards modernity, shared a belief in technology's capacity to reduce the working hours and increase leisure time.