Subsídios para o estudo da história da preservação do patrimônio cultural no Brasil: os conflitos de uma trajetória

Abstract

This paper deals with architectural preservation in Brazil since the creation of IPHAN, in 1937, due to the fact that it represents the actual step in the protection of our cultural heritage, along with the performance of one of its most influential characters, Lúcio Costa. Aiming to understand how our architectural heritage is being worked on, our proposal is to analyse how the interaction between the new and old has been happening since then. Alongside, the investigation of the development in how heritage has been tackled, of changes in recommendations and restoration theories and of concepts and values in the care of Brazilian heritage, we will work with actions that involve interventions in preexistences whether historic buildings or sites in the interest of preservation that can illustrate the history of the seventy-year path and which we believe will help us in taking an increasingly critical position in relation to our contemporary performance and possibly, help us with questions that will generate stronger foundations for us to build our principles and parameters of preservation. Thus, in the light of an agreement among the permanence of our historic evidences, our way of life and the changing needs of today's world, we want to make a contribution in the pursuit of development - social, cultural, economic and political - which we think would be achieve