| dc.description.abstract | Although Brazil was the first country in the world to implement actions aimed at
safeguarding its modern architecture, there is a scarcity of studies on modern
architectural, urban and landscape production outside the large centers, limited to the
study capitals. In this sense, the present work, carried out in the Graduate Program
in Cultural Heritage, is part of the thematic area of “Architecture and Material
Heritage” and the research line of “Preservation of Material Heritage”, taking as its
object of study the diffusion of modern principles in the urban architecture of the
municipality of Chapecó, located in the western region of the state of Santa Catarina,
between 1960 and 1990. the main objective is to understand how the ideals of
modern architecture were incorporated in Chapecó - in view of the historical,
socioeconomic and political conditions. More specifically, it is intended to map the
actions undertaken, identify the promoting agents, analyze the resulting architecture,
as well as register such production in order to list the most significant examples for
historical preservation. Initially, the study will be divided into six methodological
steps: bibliographic research; documentary research; iconographic research; field
research; data analysis and final structuring. Through an empirical survey carried out
in the urban space of Chapecó and subsequent verification in the stages of
bibliographic, iconographic and documentary research, it was possible to recognize
the buildings of modern aesthetics materialized in Chapecó. Thus, a total of ninety
(90) buildings with modernist aesthetics were counted, distributed in eleven (11)
neighborhoods and grouped into five (5) different typologies. Subsequently, eight (8)
examples of the set of modern buildings inventoried in Chapecó were selected and
analyzed, which, due to their values, especially technical and historical, have
potential for heritage preservation. As the main impacts on the urban chapecoense
landscape, we can mention the implementation of new typologies, especially public
ones, as well as the use of new forms and materials that started to compose the local
constructive repertoire, contributing, especially, to the verticalization of local
buildings. Through this work, it was intended to contribute to the field of Brazilian
modern architecture in the southern region of Brazil, going beyond the
generalizations established from the state capitals, seeking to understand its
importance in the process of the historical construction of Chapecó. | |
