Banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO: KARINE MARIA GONCALVES CORTEZ

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STUDENT : KARINE MARIA GONCALVES CORTEZ
DATE: 05/12/2025
TIME: 14:30
LOCAL: Sala virtual [plataforma meet]
TITLE:

THE UNIVERSITY CAMPUSES DESIGNED BY ARCHITECT ALCYR MEIRA: PROJECTS AND URBAN PLANS

KEY WORDS:

Alcyr Meira, architecture and urbanism, university campus, formal structures.

PAGES: 97
BIG AREA: Ciências Sociais Aplicadas
AREA: Arquitetura e Urbanismo
SUBÁREA: Fundamentos de Arquitetura e Urbanismo
SUMMARY:

The creation of dozens of higher education institutions in Brazil, especially between the 1950s and 1980s, was part of a broad national modernization project, rooted in a developmentalist framework, whose post-1964 context further reinforced bureaucratic and centralized characteristics. The emergence of this new political and economic scenario was particularly marked by the implementation of the 1968 University Reform, which—structured through official acts and influenced by American consultants and foreign investments—established in Brazil a period of great historical significance for architecture and urbanism. Despite the complexities and contradictions of these processes, this effort was crucial in building and strengthening the country’s professional and scientific training networks, while responding to the transformations and modernization demands of teaching and research. It also involved the construction of large structures across diverse urban territories, generating long-lasting impacts on urban configurations. These impacts were shaped by the modernist logic of design and spatial conception, both in intrinsic relations (the campus as a singular territory, a major urban facility, almost a city within the city) and in extrinsic ones (its relationship with municipal territories of different realities and levels of urbanization). This thesis investigates the formal and spatial logic of university campuses designed by the architect Alcyr Boris de Souza Meira, contributing to studies on these facilities within the field of architectural and urban production in the second half of the twentieth century. Throughout his professional career, Alcyr Meira was responsible for the design of eight university campuses in Brazil and abroad: Federal University of Pará (UFPA), Federal University of Paraíba (UFPB), Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), Federal University of Tocantins (UFT), Federal University of Amapá (UNIFAP), Federal University of Rondônia (UNIR), State University of Rio Grande do Norte (UERN), and the National University of Asunción (UNA) in Paraguay. It can be considered that Meira became an important—and, in a certain sense, privileged—agent in the design of several campuses that, consequently, impacted and even transformed, to varying degrees, the territories of the cities. The analysis will be conducted through the cataloging of the architect’s collection and the material from the technical sectors of the eight universities, to contribute to a comprehensive study of the urban and architectural marks left by the projects and plans of these campuses at the time of their conception and implementation. A broad comparison among them is intended, linking these campuses to a Brazilian national project. Understanding the physical structures and the architectural and urban planning solutions, whether as critical or concordant records, may support the discourse on spaces that meet the contemporary challenges of higher education. Furthermore, this work encourages reflections, within the historiography of Brazilian architecture, on the production developed during the Military Dictatorship period which, despite being embedded in an authoritarian political context, preserved, through its artistic and cultural dimension, a certain degree of autonomy from external factors beyond its disciplinary field.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Presidente - 1720813 - GEORGE ALEXANDRE FERREIRA DANTAS
Interna - 350255 - EDJA BEZERRA FARIA TRIGUEIRO
Externo à Instituição - FÚLVIO TEIXEIRA DE BARROS PEREIRA - UFCG
Externo à Instituição - FERNANDO DINIZ MOREIRA - UFPE