Le Corbusier y Lúcio Costa. Diálogos sobre la síntesis de las artes

Resumen: En la poetica de Le Corbusier, el arte comparece como presencia continua y articulada propuesta en los dialogos entre pintura, escultura y arquitectura, procedimiento que confluye posteriormente en la nocion de sintesis de las artes. Es en ese aspecto de su produccion que nos detenemos en este trabajo con los textos del arquitecto que se refieren al tema y analizando la interlocucion que establece con el teorico brasileno Lucio Costa. Damos relieve a dos momentos importantes del analisis del tema de los dos arquitectos: primero durante la segunda visita de Le Corbusier a Brasil en 1936, cuando presenta La Arquitectura y las Bellas Artes, texto en el que incorpora a sus ya conocidos postulados arquitectonicos la nocion de sintesis de las artes, considerada como forma de ofrecer a la arquitectura recursos expresivos que van mas alla del lenguaje abstracto y tecnico del funcionalismo. La segunda ocasion de dialogo entre Le Corbusier y Lucio Costa tiene lugar durante el Congreso Internacional de Artistas, organizado por la UNESCO en Venecia, cuando desenvuelven consideraciones sobre la relacion entre arte y arquitectura. Abstract: In the poetics of Le Corbusier, art appears as a continuous and articulate presence, as proposed in the dialogs between painting, sculpture and architecture, a process that converges, later, in the notion of the synthesis of the arts. It is on this aspect of his work that we focus exploring texts written by the architect on the theme. The proposed collaboration between the major arts—architecture, painting and sculpting—is recorded in a paper that the architect presented during his second visit to Brazil, in 1936, when he met Lucio Costa, the Brazilian architect and theoretician, who was attuned to the poetics of Le Corbusier concerning the relationship between architecture and visual arts. The paper by Le Corbusier A Arquitetura e as Belas Artes [Architecture and Fine Arts], from 1936, emphasizes the idea of modern architecture in dialogue with the machine age, and to this well-known formula, a new topic is added: the collaboration between architecture and the major arts of painting and sculpting. In this way, Le Corbusier in 1952, participates in the International Conference of Artists, organized by Unesco in Venice, this conference was another opportunity for dialog between Lucio Costa and Le Corbusier, emphasizing the poetic dimension of the architecture. Palabras clave: sintesis de las artes; Le Corbusier; Lucio Costa; arquitectura moderna. Keywords: synthesis of the arts; Le Corbusier; Lucio Costa; modern architecture. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/LC2015.2015.783