Notes to the question of modernity at the Instituto Butantan

Abstract

This article intends to point elements that introduce the question of modernity and its almost invisible presence in Instituto Butantan architecture, evidencing the 1960s as a period in which are manifested modern purposes, not built, to the Institution. In reason of the theme constitute a part of an ongoing research it is intends, more than spike definitive conclusions, open the discussion about the modernist shortage in Butantan at a time when Brazilian modern architecture was at its peak, its projects was implemented – as the inauguration of Brasilia – and the euphoria for the modernization was in national imagination. Therefore, will be outlined a brief history of cultural aspects and the architectural production in postwar Brazil, of modernization in São Paulo Estate and of the relations of this period with the modern purposes elaborate for the Instituto Butantan in the 1960s, drafting hypotheses that justifies the reason for the non-achievement of this projects.