This article focuses on three sports centers built in three different parts of the globe during the 1930s: the Mussolini Forum (Rome, 1932), the National Stadium of Jamor (Lisbon, 1944) and the Pacaembu Stadium (São Paulo, 1940). Built in a historic moment of consolidation and performance of several new governments (New States), these sporting arenas demonstrate how the longing for the construction of a “new man” shared by these governments, catapulted the construction of grandiose and monumental sports centers.
This study, made mostly by texts from the serial media (newspapers and magazines), shows that, despite being built in different nations, these stadiums shared composition, discourse and purpose.
Together with these points, one seeks to demonstrate how the studies related to the architecture built in Fascist Italy, Salazarist Portugal and Getulist Brazil can contribute for the understanding of the modern architecture trajectory of the 1930s.