Palacio dos Azulejos : de residencia a Paço Municipal (1878-1968)

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2003

RESUMO

The purpose of this work is to investigate the old semi-detached two-story house, built and inhabited by the traditional Joaquim Ferreira Penteado family - Itatiba Baron which became known from the mid-1930s on as Palácio dos Azulejos (Tile Palace). While retrieving the sense of the term house, rigid geometrically conceived object, it was noticed it was in it, that, along the past centuries, important values such as privacy, domesticity, individuality and comfort, along with the home and family concepts, were developed, becoming this way, the fixing element of the family unit. Undergoing physical transformations along the time, the house, be it shelter or home, has always protected men s body and spirit, sheltering them, in comfort and intimacy, not only from bad weather but also from the foreign or public gaze. For the XIX century São Paulo patriarchal family, which was involved in the bourgeois spirit, living in an urban two-story house represented all the best in which concerned dwelling, since it symbolized wealth, the power and modernization through new constructive techniques and styles and an avalanche of industrialized goods, raw materials, manufactures, along with behavioral changes. For keeping this power, the Ferreira Penteado family, together with others of the same period, kept a network of wedding alliances among relatives and political peers, seeing that they could, this way, not only keep control of the economical power, but also strengthen political and social ties held in the city. Raised to the condition of City Hall, from 1908 on, the old two-story building underwent a series of architectural interventions, adapting itself to the new usage of the public space, seeing that, for being an adapted building, it had not met, from the very beginning, the needs of the municipality. From 1938 on, deep urban changes started being implanted in Campinas through the Urban improvement plan, and at times, its demolition and the rebuilding of the new City Hall was considered, which did not take place along the years, due to the persistence of some conservationists who saw, in its maintenance, the possibility of its sheltering of the Campinas Historic Museum. Although its listing for protection had been assured through the IPHAN in 1967, which act was amended by CONDEPHAAT and by CONDEPACC, some years later, the Palácio dos Azulejos continued generating great tension among the municipal authorities and representatives of the several segments of the society seeing that, while some struggled for its preservation, others demanded the suspension of its listing for protection and, consequently, its demolition, claiming that its maintenance was the antithesis of progress, devising, in the liberation of this important estate, a possibility of major investments on the part of real estate area entrepreneurs. In the current stage, with the effort of the public and private sectors, the revitalization of Campinas downtown area is under consideration, having in the restoration of the Palácio dos Azulejos the main motto for re-qualifying not only its surroundings, valorizing it not solely in the urban mesh, but the city itself through innumerous initiatives such as the restoration of historical assets, streets, and common grounds

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prefeituras municipais familia - são paulo (sp) - historia sobrados - arquitetura

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