Lelé: industrialização e desenvolvimento científico da arquitetura “oscárica”

Abstract

This paper describes the trajectory of the architect João Filgueiras Lima, Lelé, from his training period within the office of the architect Aldary Henriques Toledo, responsible for his introduction into the intellectual milieu of modern Brazilian architecture, to his approach to the architect Oscar Niemeyer and the anthropologist and politician Darcy Ribeiro. The analysis of Lelé's works, designed and built throughout his professional life, evidences the technological and industrial development that he sought and was guided by: the initial experiences in reinforced mortar and the later use of folded steel sheets. Always with the support of the factories that he set up and managed, João Filgueiras Lima reconciled the technological possibilities of industrialization with modern aesthetic precepts; in this way, building a typically national tradition in keeping with the country's climate.