Ecletismos e a construção da cidade contemporânea: um olhar sobre o Historicismo na arquitetura em Pelotas.

Abstract

The research analyzes historicist elements in architecture from different periods of the city of Pelotas. It discusses the paradox of the devaluation of the original eclectic architecture and the concomitant construction of new historicist buildings. The objective is to understand the meanings of recurrence, in actuality, the formal themes related to institutions and values of the past. The numerous eclectic collection of original buildings and also the post-modern neo-eclectic examples in the city comprise the objects of study. The decharacterization of old buildings and the emerging reconstruction in the city of architectural icons similar to the past will be studied under a critical-hermeneutic approach. The methods and techniques of analysis and interpretation are experienced the formal-logical, socio-evaluative, the iconographic-iconological and history, with their explicit theoretical frameworks. Expected to discover some way of ruptures and continuities with the past architectures, which take place in the present. Highlight and discuss the paradoxes in the construction of Pelotas can contribute to a deeper understanding of similar urban structures, which constructs asset value become the contemporary “new” buildings of historicist trends.