Arquitetura Moderna: campus do Benfica

Abstract

This publication was composed in partnership with the UFC Memorial, with the aim of presenting aspects of the architecture of the Benfica Campus. Despite the transformations in the urban landscape in Bairro do Benfica, many houses were preserved, with a part of these buildings belonging to the UFC and used as administrative spaces, student residences and cultural houses for teaching foreign languages. These constructions, as well as the buildings built during the University's creation period, in the 1950s, constitute important examples for the history of architecture in the modernist period in Ceará, as well as representing an important part of the memory of the neighborhood and of the UFC itself.