Crônicas em Construção

Abstract

The structuring of modernity, as a project of knowledge, was largely supported by a dual movement: the centralization of reason and the denial of exteriority. The following research analyzes the infiltration of this operative logic into the formation of the architectural field through a comparative analysis of the connections between the modern subject and the emerging architect. The distinctions between the bodies of thought and the bodies of production – complexified by the dynamics of violence established by coloniality and slavery – are employed as an interpretative key for three productive contexts: the Church of Nossa Senhora do Rosário dos Homens Pretos da Barra, in Sabará; the Recolhimento de Nossa Senhora do Parto, in Rio de Janeiro; and the Real Fábrica de Vidros da Bahia, in Salvador. By acknowledging the gap as a constitutive aspect of archives, even more evident in the case of construction sites, this research seeks to compose counter-narratives committed to the construction workers violated by the production of Brazilian colonial architecture, while also addressing the ways in which official History has denied representation of their existences.