O século 20 e a constituição de algumas de suas modernidades arquitetônicas: Campina Grande (PB) 1930- 1950

Abstract

It deals with the architectural production of Campina Grande, Paraíba, in the 1930s and 1940s. Analyzes the modernizing element assigned to Art Deco, neo- colonial, the mission style and other events which highlight the local and national landscapes. It investigates the ways, the possible theoretical trends and the professionals involved with the process. The article aims to capture, document and analyze part of the cultural ambience from Campina Grande in the first half of the twentieth century. Initially, the text deals with the emergency context of these architectures in the local landscape. Subsequently, it studies its technical, spatial and aesthetic bounds with the architectural points of view at the time. There fore, the research gathers from the original designs of the period, memoirs, newspaper clippings and a recent photographic survey.