Principles of Organic Architecture in buildings inspired by Anthroposophy: permanence through Sustainable and Bioclimatic Architecture

• DOI: https://doi.org/10.22533/at.ed.2164102415051

• Palavras-chave: Organic architecture, Anthroposophic architecture, Sustainable architecture.

• Keywords: Organic architecture, Anthroposophic architecture, Sustainable architecture.

• Abstract: The text addresses the issue of the permanence of the concept of organic architecture today as an integral element of building projects linked to modern and contemporary societies. The concept of organic architecture is present in Brazil in significant works by renowned architects such as Oscar Niemeyer and Lina Bo Bardi, as well as in everyday works. The objective of the research is to identify the premises that appear as elements inherent to the design strategies linked to buildings that belong to the anthroposophical aspect of organic architecture, classified by Nóbrega (2020) as the conceptual line that represents Radical Organicism (or co-expressionism) and which has Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925) as its founder. The investigation selected as a territorial area the Alto da Boa Vista neighborhood, in the south zone of the city of São Paulo, which has its history linked to English and German immigration, the latter being responsible for transposing the anthroposophic current into the local cultural one. The methodological procedures used in the empirically based investigation involved the selection and analysis of examples constructed from the selected categories, arising from the reading and critical analysis of texts by the authors: Rudolf Lanz (1998), Adriana Romero (2001) and Melany Vargas Benites (2018). The results demonstrate that the permanence and validity of architectural examples inspired by anthroposophic architecture in São Paulo today can be justified by the fact that they present characteristics that are related to architectures called bioclimatic and sustainable, linked to the aspects of contemporary architecture.