Expressões arquitetônicas de modernidade em Maceió: uma perspectiva de preservação

Abstract

This study deals with the insertion of the Modernity Architectonics Expressions in Maceio city from the middle of 19th century to the end of the sixties, in the discussions and practices of Cultural Heritage Preservation. It elects one period that starts since those considered, by the official historiography, real times of city development to the important progressists and modernizing initiatives with nationalist base. This time frame gives rise in the city the time construction of eclectics and modernism buildings that are considered expressions of Modernity to Maceio -, also involving the events between these periods, the promodern and the neocolonial -, that stayed for a long time forgotten for the local and national cultural heritage preservation attitude, and had been no historic and artistically valorized, thus incurring further degradation. The work aims at contributing with a direction to the actual preservation politics that should involve the history in its totality, without segmentations determinate by any kind of architectural style or social classes. The expressions of Modernity were analyzed from a plural and heterogenic perspective, considering the architecture in a general way erudite or popular production as artistic object and diary experienced build which incorporate material and intangible information during time. Because of the qualitative nature of the research, it was adopted methodological procedures of content analysis and guided and projective interviews, which are better adequate to approach with social reality. In this sense, from the significations and values acquired, this research intends to collaborate with a new approach to modern production in the field of Architecture when inserts the manifestations of Maceió in discussion and preservation practices.