Ressonâncias e inflexões do modernismo arquitetônico no Ceará: a contribuição de Gerhard Bormann

Abstract

This PhD dissertation is based on the trajectory of Gerhard Bormann, an architect and a professor at the School of Architecture of the Federal University of Ceará, Brazil, during the 1960s and 1970s. The analysis of his work, academic doctrine, and biography are taken as a means for understanding a collective architectural production related to the diffusion of modern architecture in the local scene. Having as a goal to broaden the knowledge on this subject, this work seeks to identify agents, retrieve debates, understand aspects of urban dynamics, and analyze significant architectural examples of the period, produced by different architects. The overlap of the proposals made by Bormann and his contemporaries, sometimes pointing to convergences, sometimes to singularities, reveals the moment of tension and complexity that surrounds these productions which are performed in the friction between external modernizing inflows and local conditions. As they are mediators of this process, they aim to, at the same time, validate that assimilation, perform the necessary transformations and give legitimacy to their new formulations, both in relation to the place and the culture of modern architecture.