Arquitetura Brutalista Institucional em São Luís: Análise dos edifícios do Centro de Ciências Sociais - UFMA, do Estádio Castelão, do Hospital Carlos Macieira, do Ministério da Fazenda e do Fórum Desembargador Sarney Costa.

Abstract

This paper is an invitation to the reader to show the influences of the brutalist movement in the architecture of São Luís. It is important to analyze an approach about how Brutalism Architecture traveled through the world, including India, arriving in Brazil until appearing in a small number of these samples in São Luís, understanding how this new language was accepted. In this way, recognize and contextualize the creation of Brutalist architecture in São Luís is an important instrument for preserving twentieth century architecture and for the debate on contemporary urban planning. In this perspective, the intention is to analyze and catalog the main examples of Brutalist language architecture in São Luís between 1970 and 1980. The idea of this research is to rescue the importance of these buildings in the urban and architectural context as icons of brutalism in the capital of Maranhão and to emphasize their uses and their states of conservation and preservation.