*BRAZILIAN architecture, *BRAZILIAN literature, *MODERNITY, *MODERNISM (Aesthetics), *MODERN movement (Architecture), *ART Deco, *TWENTIETH century
Abstract
From a reflection on modernity and its implications, this paper proposes a reading one's own aesthetic and social architecture of the city of Rio de Janeiro. Also a literature review art-deco which is often outside the modernist canon but that sustained dialogue with the modernist movement. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]