ArchDaily | Broadcasting Architecture Worldwide https://www.archdaily.com/ Sat, 17 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://assets.adsttc.com/doodles/archdaily-logo-feedly.svg 026CB6 https://www.archdaily.com/1121764/ufmg-rectory-an-expression-of-modernism-in-minas-gerais Sun, 24 Nov 2019 14:00:00 +0000 Edgardo Moreira Neto https://www.archdaily.com/1121764/ufmg-rectory-an-expression-of-modernism-in-minas-gerais Architectural modernism emerged in the wake of the early 20th-century European avant-gardes. The movement was fueled by industrial capitalism and the thrilling technological progress unfolding before everyone's eyes. The break with the past had been deliberately ushered in by intellectual, artistic, and technical movements since the mid-19th century. The Crystal Palace, for instance, designed by Sir Joseph Paxton, was built in London to host the Great Exhibition of 1851 and represented a structural revolution in the use of lightweight materials such as iron and glass.

]]> https://www.archdaily.com/1121488/the-university-campus-as-a-public-space-open-to-the-city Mon, 29 Apr 2019 05:30:00 +0000 Edgardo Moreira Neto https://www.archdaily.com/1121488/the-university-campus-as-a-public-space-open-to-the-city When we understand architecture as the activity of modifying a natural site and transforming it into an environment suitable for human coexistence—whether through a building or the urbanization of a territory—we can understand the architect's work as something that must serve the community. In this sense, the historical concept of humanism and republicanism is invoked—the public affair, in Latin.

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