Librería Samer Atenea
Librería Aciertas (Toledo)
Kálamo Books
Librería Perelló (Valencia)
Librería Elías (Asturias)
Donde los libros
Librería Kolima (Madrid)
Librería Proteo (Málaga)
1. ¡Frena, Cándida, frena!
2. Cándida canguro
3. La fiesta de Cándida
4. Los Eskolares Kaníbales
5. El culo de Cándida
7. Cándida enamorada
8. Cándida iluminada
9. Semana de esquí
10. Carnaval
11. La teoría de la relatividad
12. San Jorge besa a la araña
13. La primavera de Cándida
14. ¡Ohhhhhhhh!
15. Luz verde: verano.
This collection, edited by Fernando Luiz Lara and Silvana Romano Santos, brings together articles that are somehow related to a common nodule, that I believe was identified few years ago, and points to a kind of birth mark of Brazilian’s architectural culture.The common nodule being the belief (that houses texts, narratives and speeches of the decades of 1920 to 1940) in an alternative project of modern action – where culture and nature have main roles –, that due its discursive efficiency metamorphoses itself in real characteristics of Brazilian modern architecture. In synthesis, the intellectual artifices turn themselves in an organic character. Thus, the understanding of the discursive assembly of Brazilian modern is, at the same time, the understanding of its efficiency in the constitution of an art and of an architecture with its own characteristics. The comprehension of such historic phenomena happens, therefore, through a speech that describes, constitutes and legitimizes itself. Finally, it won’t be useless to mention that some of the selected articles are nothing more than simple registers of the architectural culture – something with partial and provisional analysis about architecture’s teaching, critic or historiography –, which we must read with the same unpretentiousness that motivated them. 3
