As Formas de morar na Belém da belle-époque (1870-1910)

Abstract

In the middle of the nineteenth century, the capital of Pará began to feel the first transformations the richness of rubber. From the period of expansion of the economy in 1870, this conjuncture allowed the interventions and improvements followed by the ideals of modernity, progress and civilization, introduced by the Government in the construction of a modern Bethlehem, a period that extends to the end of the cycle, approximately in 1910. In evoking the architecture of the period to be worked, in common sense, it evidence of the great legacy of the rubber cycle, mirrored in a process riches and opportunities in which the houses have been built with an architecture imported European, becoming the very symbol of this modernity. But, too, built houses that threatened the urban modernization project created for the new Belém, and, therefore, it became necessary to create some rules and measures that to prevent or remove the non-conforming houses from the central core, forcing to build in more peripheral areas of Belém. The new conjuncture allowed the construction of new and different ways of living, where resources would be more evident in the architectural party of their homes - from homes bourgeois to popular. And between these two extremes were the various forms of living in Belém da belle-époque. For this reason, the house becomes an important document by which we can understand the influence of all external factors (economic, social, technical, cultural, public, artistic, spatial, among others) in its construction. The major challenge, therefore, of this dissertation is to reveal the housing diversity built in the different ways of living during the period in question.