ABSTRACT
This article addresses the relationships between architects and the questions of “the people” and “social housing” as discursive constructions and urban realities in São Paulo, from the 1960s until the 1980s. In the 1970s, in the midst of a crisis of initial attempts to situate the problem of low-income housing at the center of architects’ agendas within the political left, the relationship between progressive architects and poor peripheral populations goes through an initial paradigmatic turn.
KEYWORDS:
São Paulo architecture; housing; peripheries; sociology of the built environment