Origini del modernismo brasiliano nelle opere di Warchavchik, Levi e Altberg

This article is aimed at being aware of the first experiences of Modern Architecture in Brazil from the 1920s onwards. In particular, Gregori Warchavchik, Alexander Altberg and Rino Levi, thanks to their first works and writings, were decisive for the development of a new vision of architecture, in cities such as São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, which later spread throughout the country. The illusory homogeneity of the Modern Movement, in fact, is called into question by the ability to reconfigure the lexicon of Modernism in a profoundly heterogeneous and complex cultural and social context. Moreover, a greater degree of freedom in the interpretation of the grammar proposed by the Masters of the XX century has allowed the development of an autonomy of jargon, aligning along a new trajectory of Modernity, that has seen authors and works considered being marginal, to configure a new and completely original map of the so-called International Style. The education of Warchavchik and Levi in Italy and that of Altberg at the Bauhaus of Gropius have allowed the authors to assert themselves within a new tradition capable of producing a deviation from the modernist ideals that then made the path of future generations of architects free from the obsession with the paradigm.