Aurelio Martinez Flores : a produção do arquiteto mexicano no Brasil (1960-2015)

• Ano de defesa: 2018
• Autor(a) principal: Rodrigues, Felipe de Souza Silva
• Orientador(a): Guerra Neto, Abílio da Silva
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie
• Palavras-chave em Português: Flores, Aurelio Martinez; arquitetura mexicana; design; modernismo; Barragá, Luis; México; arquitetura brasileira; modernismo no Brasil
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CNPQ::CIENCIAS SOCIAIS APLICADAS::ARQUITETURA E URBANISMO
• Link de acesso: http://dspace.mackenzie.br/handle/10899/26167

Aurelio Martinez Flores (1929-2015), a Mexican architect based in Brazil, left throughout his professional life important contributions that take form in different fields: design, interiors and architecture. His legacy, at the same time indelible and anonymous, is revealed in his works and those of his disciples. His initiation working for furniture stores in Puebla, where he was born, gave him the architecture path in the university, and the vocation to head the production line of the American branch in Mexico City of the leading manufacturers of modern furniture in the twentieth century – Knoll International –, responsible for designs such as Mies van der Rohe, Marcel Breuer, Eero Saarinen and Harry Bertoia. At the beginning of the 1960s, after a season in the company headquarters, he was indicated to share his knowledge on the field with the recently licensed Forma store in São Paulo. In Brazil, he not only disseminated the Bauhaus design, through his pioneering store – Inter/design – but also developed a method for decoration and interiors based on modern strategy and his own cultural background. Its architectural production, rooted in Mexican tradition, acculturated by international modernism and implanted in Brazilian territory, certainly deserves to be analyzed and thought. The presence of Aurelio Martinez Flores in Brazilian architecture, although unknown, is one of the most relevant to contemporaneity. Therefore, even if late, from the analysis of primary sources, this research is fundamental to announce one of the rare incursions between the two Latin American cultures.