Desdobramentos do Acordo de Santiago: O discurso sobre a Arquitetura na América Latina em periódicos especializados brasileiros na década de 1980

Abstract

This research investigates expressions of interest in architecture in Latin America in Brazilian specialized journals in the mid-1980s. Latin America during this period was marked by movements in local responses to the exhaustion and crisis of modernism. These movements culminated in the creation of new platforms for debate, including the Latin American Architecture Seminars (SALs). Based on the debates initiated by figures who constituted the SALs, such as Marina Waisman, Enrique Browne, Lala Mendez Mosquera, among others, new events were held with the aim of continuing the discussions. Specifically, the First Ibero-American Meeting of Architecture Magazines resulted in the drafting of a cooperation document: the Santiago Agreement, which brought together representatives from 20 magazines (19 Latin American and one Spanish) with the aim of promoting editorial exchange and expanding the dissemination of regional architectural production. From the perspective of the commitments made in this agreement, this research focuses on analyzing the Brazilian representatives, Módulo and Projeto, in editions published between late 1985 and 1986. The objective was to identify the developments of the Santiago Agreement in the Brazilian magazines that signed it, focusing on the editions published in the final months of 1985 and throughout 1986. The study also compares the editorial profiles of the two magazines, comparing them in terms of their similarities and differences. Thus, the research contributes to theoretical investigations on Latin American production, dialoguing with specialized literature developed by authors such as Maluenda (2021), Waisman (2013), Gorelik (2003), Lara (2012), Sousa (2021), among others