Imigrações e arquitetura : influências internacionais em edificações históricas em Cuiabá-MT

Abstract

From the premise of elucidating the circumstances under which the current Cuiabá architecture and its historical heritage occurred, the objective was to relate how immigration and international influences contributed to the conformation of historical buildings and urban landscape in Cuiabá-MT. For this, firstly, an analysis was made in 3 distinct periods, being the mining cycle (1722 – 1820), administrative sedimentation (1820-1968) and modernization cycle (1820-currently), which sought to verify the history of immigration in Mato Grosso and the historical context in which changes to the urban landscape were inscribed Subsequently, an analysis of five historical buildings in Cuiabá was carried out, namely the Church of Nossa Senhora do Rosário e São Benedito, the Church of Nossa Senhora do Bom Despacho, the Cathedral Basilica do Senhor Bom Jesus de Cuiabá, the Casa Orlando and the Colégio Estadual Liceu Cuiabano, in order to demonstrate the influences of immigrants and the relationship of the concepts that come with their presence in the city with the changes that the buildings represented for the urban landscape. It is evident that the urban landscape, that is, the set of physical characteristics that make up the city, changes according to the historical context in which it finds itself, and these changes were and are motivated in order to convey a certain message both from political power and of economic strength.