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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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International Tourists' Experiences of the Heritage Buildings in Hawke's Bay, New Zealand.

Willson, Gregory Brian January 2006 (has links)
There has been increased attention given in the tourism literature to experiential perspectives of tourism. This thesis addresses the lack of attention in previous experiential studies to the relationship between heritage buildings and tourism. Specifically, this thesis explores the influence of heritage buildings in shaping international tourists' experiences of a particular region of New Zealand: Hawke's Bay. This research sought insight into the specific attributes of heritage buildings that influenced the experiences of international tourists visiting the region, and examined the relative importance of heritage buildings for international tourism to Hawke's Bay, as perceived by international tourists visiting the region. In this way, results are assumed in the personal constructs of individual consumers (Beeho Prentice, 1997; Prentice, Witt Hamer, 1998; McIntosh Siggs, 2005). An increased understanding of the relationship between heritage buildings and tourism is essential in strengthening support for preservation, for product development and promotion. A mixed-methodology comprising of 50 semi-structured interviews, 66 photograph-supported interviews and 354 structured questionnaires was adopted. Hawke's Bay's heritage buildings were found to have an important influence on tourists' experiences of the region, visually and as part of the narratives of their reported experiences. Attributes of Hawke's Bay's heritage buildings that influenced tourists' experiences of the region included their architecture, exterior and interior design, colour, history and associated stories. Furthermore, the interviews elicited three key experiential themes that emerged from respondents' narratives of their experiences in Hawke's Bay. They are; 'visual appeal', 'personal reflections' and 'engaging experiences'. Specifically, it was found that a townscape is not a passive space. Heritage buildings render the townscape an experiential place filled with emotion, mindfulness, engagement, and imbued with personal meaning. Visitors in effect created their own experiences through their active interaction with the environment; rendering it relevant to a context they were personally interested in, or which held personal significance for them. Analysis of the questionnaires revealed that, as perceived by international tourists, heritage buildings are important to a region; a significant proportion of respondents indicated that they would theoretically be willing to pay some money to ensure the preservation of Hawke's Bay's heritage buildings. This thesis evidences the important relationship between heritage buildings and tourism, and future research is advocated to advance upon the conclusions made in this research.
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Cidade em expansão, arquitetura em transformação: o Art Déco na João Pessoa de 1932-1955

Farias, Fernanda de Castro 26 September 2011 (has links)
Made available in DSpace on 2015-04-01T11:58:32Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 parte1.pdf: 6460448 bytes, checksum: c9c9f4dcce9c863fa23fe595d15fc0f7 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-09-26 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / The main goal of this dissertation is to investigate the relation between the architectural production of Art Deco affiliation and João Pessoa urban network inception and expansion process in the years 1932-1955, based on the link between the architecture and city. This relation analysis is enhanced when it is understood that some innovations are only possible, and in some cases mandatory, if the place enables the building deployment. The research scope was delimited in seven areas considering the city occupied area until the beginning of 1950´s, developing seventeen setorial maps from the researched excerpts based on actual pictures from buildings under research, highlighting the reformed urban areas in the first half of the twentieth century. The Art Deco architectural manifestations are analyzed from the definition of six key criteria determining the architecture specifications and its relation with the city. / O objetivo desta dissertação é investigar, a partir do vínculo entre arquitetura e cidade, a relação da produção arquitetônica de filiação Art Déco com o processo de formação e expansão da malha urbana em João Pessoa entre os anos de 1932- 1955. A análise desta relação torna-se mais rica quando se entende que algumas inovações só são possíveis, ou até obrigatórias, em função do lugar em que o edifício é implantado. O universo de pesquisa foi delimitado, considerando-se a área ocupada na cidade até início dos anos 1950, subdividindo-o em sete áreas e realizando dezessete mapas setoriais dos trechos pesquisados com fotografias atuais das edificações em estudo, destacando-se as áreas que foram alvo das reformas urbanas na primeira metade do século XX. Analisa-se as formas de manifestações da arquitetura Art Déco, a partir da definição de seis critérios fundamentais que determinam as especificidades desta arquitetura e da relação da mesma com a cidade.
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L'art sacré en Béarn et en Pays Basque dans la période de l'entre-deux-guerres. / Sacred art in Béarn and in Pays Basque during the interwar years

Croizier-Varillon, Isabelle 14 December 2012 (has links)
La période de l’entre-deux-guerres en France correspond à une phase de renaissance pour l’Art sacré. Après la loi de Séparation de 1905, l’Église dut se réorganiser, renouveler son message spirituel et inscrire concrètement son action au sein d’une société en mutation. La création d’ateliers d’art sacré et le lancement des Chantiers parisiens du cardinal Verdier, soutenus par plusieurs publications comme la revue de L’Art Sacré, insufflèrent une impulsion nouvelle à la production religieuse. Le diocèse de Bayonne participa pleinement à cet essor. Souscrivant, d’une manière originale et dynamique, à cette nouvelle configuration, il tenta d’y inclure les particularismes régionaux en faisant notamment apparaître les spécificités identitaires basque et béarnaise. L’action conjointe des évêques et des curés bâtisseurs, des architectes, des maîtres verriers et mosaïstes, des peintres, des sculpteurs ou même des orfèvres, témoigne de la réécriture de schémas anciens, voire conventionnels, au profit d’un art hésitant entre audaces et compromis. C’est en effet sous les bannières de la tradition et du renouveau, du régionalisme et de la modernité que se situe l’art sacré dans le diocèse de Bayonne. / The interwar years in France witnessed a revival of sacred Art. After the 1905 law on the separation of Church and State, the Church had to reorganize and renew its spiritual message and reposition its action in the context of a changing society. The creation of religious art workshops as well as the launching of the Parisian “Chantiers du Cardinal”, initiated by cardinal Verdier, supported by a number of reviews such as L’Art Sacré, gave a new impulse to the production of religious art. The diocese of Bayonne took a full part in this initiative. It was keen to contribute in original and dynamic ways to this new direction and tried to include regional elements and in particular features reflecting Basque and Bearnais identities. The joint work done by bishops and priests involved in building churches, architects, glassmakers and mosaic artists, painters, sculptors and even goldsmiths, shows how well-established and even conventional designs were revisited to produce an art which hesitated between daring innovation and compromise. Indeed, the sacred art of the diocese of Bayonne was marked by a mixture of tradition and renewal, regionalism and modernity.
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O art déco na Obra Getuliana. Moderno antes do modernismo / Art Deco in the Obra Getuliana (Getulio Vargas Era). The modern before the modernism.

Márcio Vinicius Reis 23 May 2014 (has links)
Trata-se de estudo investigativo de mão dupla acerca do art déco enquanto expressão primaz do moderno - não modernista - na Obra Getuliana, que assinalada pelos inúmeros edifícios públicos erigidos no período de 1930 a 1945, contribuiu para disseminá-lo no país. A princípio buscou-se explicitar em forma de panorama, uma parcela da vultosa produção arquitetônica oficial desse período, a cargo das seções de engenharia e arquitetura dos ministérios civis. Para tal, recorreu-se ao universo das exposições propagandísticas das realizações do governo estadonovista, ocorridas a partir de 1938 no antigo Distrito Federal, nas quais a Obra Getuliana esteve em evidência. A saber: Exposição do 30º aniversário do Ministério da Viação e Obras Públicas (1938); Exposição do Estado Novo (1938); Exposição do Ministério da Guerra (1941); e Exposição de Edifícios Públicos (1944). Como meio de se atestar o proposto, particularizou-se as produções do Ministério da Viação e Obras Públicas (MVOP) e Ministério da Educação e Saúde (MES), centradas respectivamente na arquitetura postal do Departamento de Correios e Telégrafos (DCT) e hospitalar relativa aos sanatórios para tuberculosos. Intentou-se também remontando o \"sistema de obras\" criado em 1939 para coordenar a referida produção oficial, e gerido pelo Departamento Administrativo do Serviço Público (DASP), entendê-la como alvo da política de racionalização dos serviços públicos pelo órgão máximo do executivo. Evidenciar as preocupações arquitetônicas oficiais relacionadas à estética e monumentalidade requeridas para os edifícios públicos nascidos dentro de um contexto político autoritário, mas progressista, foi outra forma de se averiguar a preponderância do art déco na Obra Getuliana. Nesse quesito, lançou-se mão da Revista do Serviço Público (1937-), veículo de comunicação entre Governo e funcionalismo, e de importantes registros da Obra e seu \"sistema\". / This is a two way investigative study about Art Deco whereas prime expression of the modern, but not modernist, in the Obra Getuliana, which was marked by numerous public buildings erected in the period from 1930 to 1945, thereby contributing to disseminate it in the country. At first we tried to explain it in shaped of panorama, a portion of the bulky official architectural production of this period, in charge of the sections of civil engineering and architecture departments. To this end, we adopted the universe of propagandistic exhibition of the achievements of the New State government occurred since 1938 in the former Federal District , in which the Obra Getuliana was in evidence . Namely : Exhibition of the 30th anniversary of the Ministry of Roads and Public Works (1938) ; Exposition of the New State (1938); Exhibition of the Ministry of War (1941) and Exhibition of Public Buildings (1944). As a means of proving the proposed, it was particularized the productions of the Ministry of Roads and Public Works (MVOP) and Ministry of Education and Health (MES), centered respectively on postal architecture of the Department of Posts and Telegraphs (DCT) and hospital on sanatoriums for tuberculosis. It was also attempted reassembling the \"system of works\" created in 1939 to coordinate such official production , and managed by the Administrative Department of Public Service (DASP),to understand it as a target for rationalization of public services policy by the highest body of the executive . Another way to determine the preponderance of art deco style in Obra Getuliana was to highlight the oficial architectural concerns related to aesthetics and monumentality required for those public buildings that were born within an authoritarian political context, but progressive. In this aspect, it made use of the Journal of Public Service (1937), vehicle of communication between government and civil service, and important records of the Obra and its \"system\".
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CASA DE CULTURA DE SANTA MARIA: RESTAURAÇÃO E READEQUAÇÃO DOS ESPAÇOS DE UM PATRIMÔNIO DE SANTA MARIA/RS. / CASA DE CULTURA OF SANTA MARIA RESTORATION AND READJUSTMENT OF SPACES OF A HERITAGE OF SANTA MARIA/ RS

Frota, Sadiana Luz Martins 08 November 2013 (has links)
We can avoid the loss of the existing heritage by making it object of study, thus contributing to value our historicity and preservationism. This paper aspires to better support the development project of Restoration and Readjustment of Casa de Cultura of Santa Maria through knowledge and preservation. The former Palácio da Justiça, where Casa de Cultura of Santa Maria currently is, was built in the 1940 s. It is preserved by heritage since 2009 by the City Hall as a Historic and Cultural Heritage of Santa Maria. The building has an Art Deco style. Its facade, rich in structural, keeps its original configuration. Nowadays, the Casa houses cultural and artistic associations and the Municipal Art School Eduardo Trevisan (EMAET), which offers courses in art history, theater, singing and music, held in inappropriate spaces though. Theoretical references were approached as sources for the development of this research, mainly Art Deco, besides concepts related to pathological manifestations and causes for degradation of historic buildings and their forms of representation. Considering all the objectives, such as detailing discovered problems and propose a plan for the preservation, a compromised state of conservation was verified, which accounts for the importance of the restoration project. Finally, as a preventive measure, a preservation plan is proposed, thus increasing the responsibility of future administrators of this building, so that it is kept in good state. / Pode-se evitar a perda dos patrimônios existentes tornando-os objetos de estudo, contribuindo assim para a valorização de uma vertente de nossa historicidade e preservacionismo. Este trabalho surge do anseio de maior conhecimento, preservação e para melhor atender o projeto em desenvolvimento de Restauração e Readequação da Casa de Cultura de Santa Maria. O antigo Palácio da Justiça, atual Casa de Cultura de Santa Maria, datado da década de 1940, é um bem tombado desde 2009 pelo Poder Executivo Municipal como Patrimônio Histórico e Cultural do Município e consiste em um prédio, estilo Art Decó, de grande porte. Sua fachada rica em detalhes estruturais mantém sua configuração original. Atualmente, a Casa abriga associações culturais e artísticas e a Escola Municipal de Arte Eduardo Trevisan (EMAET), que disponibiliza cursos de história da arte, teatro, canto e música, porém sem espaços adequados. Como subsídios para o desenvolvimento da pesquisa foram abordados referenciais teóricos, sobretudo o Art Déco, além de conceitos referentes às manifestações patológicas e fatores de degradação das edificações históricas e suas formas de representação. Considerando os objetivos delineados no trabalho, tais como detalhar problemas encontrados e propor um plano de preservação, constatou-se o comprometimento no estado de conservação do local, atentando para a importância de que o projeto de restauração seja executado. Por fim, como medida preventiva, propõe-se um plano de preservação, acrescendo um fator de responsabilidade aos futuros administradores desse bem material para que o mesmo seja mantido em bom estado.
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Mise en récits et réévaluation de l'Art Déco des années soixante à nos jours / Narrativization and reevaluation of Art Deco since the nineteen sixties

Lacroix Di Meo, Elodie 03 July 2012 (has links)
L’étiquette « Art Déco » apparaît au milieu des années 1960 pour désigner des créations mobilières et architecturales de l’entre-deux-guerres. Les contours donnés au style évoluent cependant considérablement au fil des années, si bien qu’il est possible de distinguer trois grandes vagues de discours.La première, centrée autour de la France et de l’Exposition internationale des Arts décoratifs et industriels modernes de 1925, traite surtout du mobilier. Elle oppose souvent Art Déco et Modernisme et voit dans le premier le signe d’une société décadente, incapable de penser le monde de l’époque et de répondre à ses défis. L’Art Déco est condamné comme un prolongement anachronique du principe décoratif. Toutefois certains auteurs voient au contraire en lui « un dernier instant de bonheur ».La deuxième vague, essentiellement anglophone et américaine (alors que la première était plutôt italienne et française), repose sur une logique tout à fait différente. Apparaissant elle aussi dans les années 1960, elle accorde davantage de place à l’architecture. Elle fait de l’Art Déco une modernité alternative, un autre moderne, et rejoint les théories postmodernes qui se développent à partir des années 1970.La troisième, enfin, plus tardive, puisqu’elle commence dans les années 1980, se situe dans le prolongement de la deuxième. Elle se fonde sur les notions de malléabilité et d’hybridité et considère l’Art Déco comme une grammaire commune susceptible d’être adaptée dans des contextes très différents les uns des autres. Reposant sur un mouvement patrimonial puissant, elle s’observe aussi bien au sujet de Miami Beach que de Bombay/Mumbai ou Napier (Nouvelle-Zélande). Dans le monde francophone, cependant, cette approche de l’Art Déco reste relativement marginale et entre parfois en concurrence avec la notion d’architecture coloniale, même si des publications récentes portant sur Casablanca se situent indéniablement dans cette perspective. / The "Art Deco" label appeared in the middle of the nineteen sixties to designate furniture and architectures from the interwar period. The style's outlines evolved considerably over time, and it is thus possible to distinguish three different waves of description.The first one is centered around France and the 1925 Exposition internationale des Arts décoratifs et industriels modernes, and focuses mainly on furniture. It often presents Art Deco and Modernism as two opposites, and views the former as the sign of a decadent society, unable to understand the realities of the period and face its challenges. Art Deco is condemned by most authors as an anachronistic prolongation of the decorative principle, while some, on the contrary, see it as a last "moment of happiness".The second wave is essentially anglophone and American (whereas the first one was mostly French and Italian) It also appeared in the nineteen sixties, and gives preeminence to architecture rather than artefacts. Its foundation is completely different from the first wave since Art Deco is viewed as the "other modern" or an alternative modernity, a new definition very much influenced by the developing postmodern theories.Lastly, the third wave, which is more recent, appears to be a prolongation of the second one. It is a based on notions such as hybridity or malleability and views Art Deco as a grammar which can be easily adapted in very different contexts. Powered by a strong heritage movement, it concerns places such as Miami Beach, Bombay/Mumbai or Napier (New Zealand). In the French speaking world, however, this approach remains relatively rare, and concurrent notions such as that of colonial architecture are often preferred, even though recent publications about Casablanca constitute an exception.
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[en] ÂNGELO MURGEL: SINGULAR TRAJECTORY (1932-1939) / [pt] ÂNGELO MURGEL: TRAJETÓRIA SINGULAR (1932-1939)

BERNARD CUNHA RODRIGUES 19 December 2016 (has links)
[pt] Dentro da trajetória profissional de Ângelo Murgel foi selecionado recorte temporal caracterizado por sua afinidade com o Art Déco, aproximadamente entre os anos de 1932 e 1939. Foram selecionados para estudo três obras projetadas pelo arquiteto no referido período e modelo arquitetônico: Cine Theatro Brasil, Hospital São Lucas e Brasil Palace Hotel. Do exame do contexto cultural vivenciado por Murgel até sua formação, do estudo da conjuntura de anseio por modernidade existente em Belo Horizonte especialmente durante a década de 1930 e da análise dos três projetos selecionados, pretende-se relacionar nosso objeto de pesquisa, Ângelo Murgel, ao modelo de arquitetura Art Déco muito difundido na capital mineira entre as décadas de 1930 e 1940. Sendo projetos de um mesmo arquiteto, que se consolidou como o primeiro profissional a desenvolver um projeto no estilo em Belo horizonte, o estudo é feito de maneira a compreender a formação tanto de sua pratica projetual, contemplando a apropriação das formas tradicionais e modernas, como também do seu discurso, discutindo o aproveitamento das novas técnicas e tecnologias construtivas nas construções. / [en] Within the professional career of Angelo Murgel was selected time frame characterized by its affinity for Art Deco, approximately between the years 1932 and 1939 were selected to study three works designed by the architect in the period and architectural model: Cine Theatro Brazil, Hospital Luke and Brazil Palace Hotel. Examining the cultural context experienced by Murgel to their training, the study of existing modernity by longing situation in Belo Horizonte especially during the 1930s and the analysis of the three selected projects, would seek to link our research object, Angelo Murgel, the architecture model Art Deco widespread in Belo Horizonte between the 1930s and 1940. as projects of the same architect who has become the first professional to develop a project in style in Belo Horizonte, the study is done in order to understand the formation of both its practice architectural design, considering the appropriation of traditional and modern forms, but also of his speech, discussing the use of new techniques and construction technologies in construction.
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Packaging radio technology during the interwar period (1925-1939) : how did the rise in popularity of the wireless receiver introduce the modernist aesthetic to the British domestic environment?

Chesters, Robert January 2014 (has links)
This thesis aims to identify and explain how, through the consumption of the wireless as a modern consumer durable, modernism was brought to society. To understand this process, the study will map how social change during the period responded to wider intellectual and aesthetic currents and trends but was driven by emergent commercial, cultural and political economies of a newly mediated society. Furthermore, it seeks to establish that this happened not as a result of social engineering through model housing schemes but as a result of consumer-led demand. This investigation considers how, as part of that newly mediated social environment, the wireless developed following its arrival on the domestic market without having adopted a single stylistic form. It addresses how that form, both stylistically and technically, evolved over a relatively short period to address the economic and cultural requirements and expectations of a new electrically powered domestic entertainment technology. In so doing, a discourse will be established considering these expectations and requirements related to how the wireless in Britain adopted and adapted the Modernist design idiom. It will further consider how the language of Modernism was propagated as the accepted version of what a radio could or should look like, so developing the modernist paradigm in a broader sense. To gain an appreciation of this it is necessary to understand the contemporary public conception of what the modern was in a more general sense. To decipher this public perception of modernity the project aims to extrapolate that public conception through examining other popular forms and products. Although this suggests that Radio was not alone in adopting the language of the moderne, as a product it is notable for its widespread commercial success and as such can be identified as a significant carrier of the coded message of what was modern. Design historians such as Yagou and Forty have attempted to incorporate radio into various strands of historical perception but the typologies they have devised to describe and understand wireless fall short in addressing the relationship between modernity and the wireless and instead see the wireless in terms of being an independent consumer product, a quasi-scientific instrument or else a furnishing form, rather than creating categories which accommodate the wireless and its position as a design type in its own right. To overcome this shortcoming a strand of this thesis seeks to argue that the wireless was itself a proto-modernist device during the early years of market expansion. That device then developed along a natural stylistic course embracing contemporary decorative ideas. By assessing the response of radio manufacturers to the socio-economic conditions of their market, this study has highlighted how through producing a product which addressed contemporary ideas of glamour, ease of use and functionality, the wireless entered a wide range of homes during the 1920s and 1930s. For the public, the immediate appeal of the wireless was that it provided access to the international experience of listening in while simultaneously it provided a template for the consumer to base their understanding of the modern World, both in its mediated form and stylistic appearance. This thesis seeks to demonstrate that during the period 1925 to 1939, the wireless established itself as an unashamedly modern device which appealed to a broad socio economic cross section of the public. By consuming the wireless, the British public accepted a significant technological and stylistic aspect of modernity into their homes. This was achieved despite the privations of the era because of the perceived desirability of wireless broadcasts and the perception of listening in as a popular leisure activity. As a result of that consumer demand, the British public was given access to a range of stylistic versions of modernity through the design of radio cabinetry. These modern styles were readily consumed throughout the social spectrum in preference to historicist alternatives. This demonstrates that the wireless was instrumental in introducing the modernist aesthetic to the British domestic environment.
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Race mindedness in the physical architecture of Winnipeg's former civic auditorium

Maton, Timothy 21 January 2016 (has links)
Centred on the architecture of the Winnipeg Civic Auditorium, this thesis tangentially investigates the presence of Anglo-Saxon race mindedness in a place civic planners call the metropolitan centre of North America (Watt, 1932). The introduction situates the building tangentially in Manitoba's history. By thinking about the Civic Auditorium in a tangential manner I aim to attack the linear and sequential framework found in Eurocentric historical accounts. Doing this, my thesis criticises western architectural history and welcomes Indigenous reinterpretations of civic planning and urban aesthetics. I aim to philosophically attack the informational rhetoric of the cultural turn (Fabian, 1983). My thesis participates in the production of a material turn discourse, wherein the important philosophical relationship between objects and occidental culture is demonstrated (Otter, 2010; Bennett & Joyce, 2010; Hamilton, 2013). It utilises the Civic Auditorium as a touch stone to demonstrate the important ways that architecture has agency in the production of racism. / February 2016
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Construção, arquitetura e configuração urbana de Campinas nas décadas de 1930 e 1940: o papel de quatro engenheiros modernos / Construction, architecture and urban configuration of Campinas in the 1930s and 1940s - the role of four modern engineers

Zakia, Sílvia Amaral Palazzi 11 May 2012 (has links)
O trabalho analisa como a produção arquitetônica e a atuação política de quatro engenheiros contribuiu para o processo de modernização espacial da cidade de Campinas nas décadas de 1930 e 1940. O período estudado coincide com o momento de elaboração e implantação do Plano de Melhoramentos Urbanos, desenvolvido pelo urbanista Prestes Maia, sob encomenda do poder municipal. Entre o grupo restrito de atores envolvidos no projeto de modernização da cidade, destacou-se a participação dos engenheiros Eduardo Badaró, Hoche Néger Segurado, Lix da Cunha e Mário Penteado. O primeiro, funcionário da prefeitura, foi responsável pela implantação do plano, e os demais representavam os escritórios de engenharia mais operosos da cidade. Estuda a forma como a produção arquitetônica desses engenheiros foi realizada e investiga os fatores envolvidos no processo de sua constituição: referências artísticas e conceituais influenciadas pelos ecos tardios do embate teórico entre modernos e acadêmicos, travado nas primeiras décadas do século XX e que motivou engenheiros e arquitetos na busca por novos paradigmas inspirados nas vanguardas europeias; os meios materiais tendo no concreto armado um novo definidor do sistema construtivo; a herança das formações acadêmicas distintas; os jogos econômicos atrelados à industrialização da cidade; as estratégias políticas para a legitimação da implantação do plano de modernização urbana; as ações dos recém-fundados órgãos de classe no processo de afirmação da categoria profissional e, por fim, as demandas e aspirações de suas clientelas. Ao abordar as circunstâncias que envolveram a transformação do espaço urbano, tendo como corresponsáveis esses profissionais, a investigação dá ensejo a uma reflexão sobre ideias de modernidade que ultrapassam o campo das artes, que não obedecem a uma linha evolutiva homogênea e, sobretudo, que reconhecem a existência de várias categorias arquitetônicas, representantes das muitas correntes envolvidas em um processo de modernização mulltifacetado. / This paper analyses how the architectural production and political action of four engineers contributed to the spatial modernization process of the city of Campinas in the 1930s and 1940s. The studied period coincides with the time of the preparation and implementation of the Urban Improvement Plan, developed by the urban planner Prestes Maia and commissioned by the municipal power. Among the group of professionals involved in the modernization project of the city, the participation of the engineers Eduardo Badaró, Hoche Neger Segurado, Lix da Cunha and Mario Penteado stood out. The first engineer, who worked for the city hall, was responsible for implementing the plan, and the other engineers represented the most distinguished architecture offices in the city. It is of great interest to understand how the architectural production of these engineers was carried outand investigate the factors involved in its creation: conceptual and artistic references influenced by the late echoes of the clash between modern and academic in the early decades of the twentieth century that motivated engineers and architects in the search for new paradigms inspired by the European avant-gardes; the material resources having in the reinforced concrete a new determinant in the construction system; the inheritance of different academic backgrounds; the economic relations closely related to the industrialization of the city; the political strategies for the legitimation of the implementation of the urban modernization plan; the actions of the newly founded professional entities in the process of assertion of the professional category, and finally, the demands and aspirations of their clientele. By addressing the circumstances surrounding the transformation of the urban space, having these professionals as mutually responsible for all these changes, the investigation brings up a reflection on an idea of modernity that goes beyond the arts, does not follow a smooth evolutionary path and, above all, that recognizes the existence of various architectural categories, representing many streams of a multifaceted modernity.

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