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Bibliographic Citation:
CARVALHO, F. Uma tese curiosa: a cidade do homem nu. In: Mattar, Denise. Flavio de
Carvalho: 100 anos de um revolucionário romântico. Rio de Janeiro: Centro Cultural Banco do
Brasil, 1999. p.79-82

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or downloading for personal In this article, the artist and engineer Flávio de Carvalho outlines his thoughts on a “city of the
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future” inhabited by “naked men,” members of a society that has “stripped” itself of western
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work intended for commercial taboos, and is finally, “free from reasoning and from thought.” His suggestions evoke and
purpose will require permission reinterpret the idea of (cultural) anthropophagy proposed by Oswald de Andrade that included
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the “resurrection” of primitive, savage man in his natural state, “with all his desires, all his
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curiosity intact and unrepressed.” In Carvalho’s vision of an anthropophagus city, capitalist
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ley de derechos de autor. Se property and social institutions such as matrimony would be eliminated and replaced with
reservan todos los derechos. communal living. The “city of naked men” would be “in general, a human city,” with zones laid
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out in concentric rings, each of which would be devoted to a specific purpose. The arrangement
para uso personal o la inclusión
de cualquier parte de este of these rings would not be inspired by any sort of urban reasoning (that would provide a “central
documento en otra obra con hospital”) but by psychological categories, for example an “erotic zone” where citizens could
propósitos comerciales re-
develop their “new ego, reorienting their libido and thus destroying logic.” Flávio de Carvalho
querirá permiso de quien(es)
detenta(n) dichos derechos. delivered this lecture at the IV Congresso Panamericano de Arquitetos in Rio de Janeiro in 1930.
Please note that the layout His audience was genuinely perplexed to hear that his concept of urban design was founded on
of certain documents on this a platform of social criticism that envisioned mankind unfettered by bourgeois prejudices.
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