This article examines the question of how architects in Sao Paulo during the 1950s and 1960s addressed the political nature of their work, and more specifically the connections between their practice and the lives and politics of the urban poor in the context of a rapidly expanding metropolis of the Global South. More specifically, it assesses how they elaborated strategies to articulate the semiotic and material practices of Brutalism and the political repertoire of national developmentalism, initially in its democratic and later in its authoritarian form. The article argues that these architects deployed two semio-material strategies to operationalize the articulation between that political repertoire and the field of architecture: metaphorical indexicality and the impetus for the industrialization of construction. The image of the urban poor reinforced by that political repertoire was marked by a severe distance from their empirical life experiences, which deeply affected the practices of design and construction that progressive architects advanced.

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粗野主义与人民：二十世纪中叶圣保罗国家发展主义的建筑表达

本文探讨了 1950 年代和 1960 年代圣保罗的建筑师如何解决他们工作的政治性质的问题，更具体地说，在快速扩张的大都市背景下，他们的实践与城市贫民的生活和政治之间的联系。全球南方。更具体地说，它评估了他们如何制定策略来阐明粗野主义的符号学和物质实践以及国家发展主义的政治曲目，最初是民主形式，后来是专制形式。这篇文章认为，这些建筑师部署了两种符号材料策略来操作政治曲目与建筑领域之间的联系：隐喻指标性和建筑工业化的动力。