Thesis (M.Sc.)--University of Hong Kong, 2004. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 63-64)

published_or_final_version / abstract / Conservation / Master / Master of Science in Conservation

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.

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