The Rise of Popular Modernist Architecture in Brazil

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments I am indebted to many institutions that helped me carry out this research over the last decade. I want to thank the Brazilian CAPES Foundation (1996–2000), the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Center (1998) and the Institute for the Humanities (2000–2001) at the University of Michigan, the FIP program at the Catholic University of Minas Gerais (2002), the Brazilian Council for Research (CNPq, 2003–4), and the Graham Foundation (2005–6) for supporting different stages of this investigation . I am also indebted to many friends and colleagues whose engagement in the process in many different ways gave me the strength and encouragement to pursue this research. At the University of Michigan, Sueann Caulfield, Linda Groat, and Anatole Senkevitch deserve many thanks. My friends Janice Barnes, Ela Cil, Rochelle Martin, Raul Smith, and Leonard Temko offered their support and raised interesting questions. In Brazil, João Francisco Abreu, Sonia Marques, Hugo Segawa, and Ruth Verde Zein provided their intellectual guidance. Thanks also to Ângelo Arruda, Rodrigo Baeta, Vanessa Brasileiro, Altino Caldeira, Andre D’angelo, Juliana Nery, Carlos Teixeira, and Isa Tiburcio for believing that Brazilian popular modernism should be documented and discussed. Thanks also go to Thais Biscaro, Marina Horta, Estela Netto, Clarissa Neves, and Ryan Schirmang, committed and hard-working research assistants . Kirsteen Anderson carefully edited the original manuscript, Vicente Del Rio and Luis Carranza offered invaluable comments on the manu- xvi script, and Amy Gorelick at the University Press of Florida gave helpful advice. And last but not least, thanks to my wife, Leticia, and my daughters, Helena and Beatriz, for making it all worth the effort. This book is dedicated to them. Acknowledgments ...