The Anthropophagic Movement in Brazil: Social Integration and Cultural Cannibalism Shape Modernist Architecture

The Anthropophagic Movement, originating in Brazil in the 1920s, exemplified a distinctive cultural response to the influx of Western modernity from European migrants, characterised by a robust ethos of hospitality and empathy towards the unfamiliar and diverse. Through the analyses of the Anthropophagic Movement influence In Brazilian architecture it might be possible to better understand the hybridization of modern concept with local culture, an adaptation which is at the base of the growth of modernism in Brazil.