Publicomos

Notice (permalien)

Réf.

41839

Type

conference item

Titre

São Paulo : the impact of change and the recovery of intangible heritage

Langues

English

Auteurs

Sampaio, Suzanna do Amaral Cruz

Lieu de publication

Paris

Pays de publication

France

Maison d'édition

ICOMOS

Date

2005

Pages

5 p.

Addenda

Handwritten page numbers 153-157 on the printed collected papers.

Titre de conférence

14th ICOMOS General Assembly and International Symposium: ‘Place, memory, meaning: preserving intangible values in monuments and sites’

Lieu de conférence

Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe

Date de conférence

27 – 31 oct 2003

Mots-clés

towns / architectural heritage / intangible cultural heritage

Pays mentionnés

Brazil

Monuments et sites

São Paulo, Brazil

Résumé en anglais

In 1954, during the celebrations of the 4th Centennial of the foundation of São Paulo, people boasted about the great progress the City had made by admiring the high rate of construction. Safe for the great cities in the USA, large urban centres such as São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro are generally capital cities that concentrate the largest and best historic and architectural sites — made up of significant and often artistic heritage — keeping in full with the power they represent. São Paulo never bore the symbolic physiognomy of power, nor does the beauty of its landscape, its rivers and vegetation stand out at first sight. Like most American cities, the urban setting of São Paulo demonstrates the power of its civil society — not its political power. It is still surprising to look back on the pride and the excitement which took hold of the people at that time. Everyone resorted to “the strength, talent and courage of Paulista origins” so as to explain the material metamorphoses the city had undergone in the last seventy years (1874 - 1950). The continuous destruction of the original colonial village and of the provincial imperial town, and the devastation of almost the entire bourgeois republican architecture, was thus hidden beneath the “progress” metaphor that constituted the ultimate justification for all previous destruction. The architectural and historic heritage of São Paulo was thereby buried beneath endless layers of concrete. This paper aims at searching among the debris for whatever significant evidence has remained of these past historical moments.

Document joint

B1-1_-_Sampaio.pdf

Licence

Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (BY-NC-ND)

Document source

26567 - English #26567

N° d'entrée et cote

14852