Tipologias eclipsadas: vestígios de racialização na casa belo-horizontina do início do século XX

Abstract

The present research examines residential architecture from a social perspective, seeking to investigate the relationship between domestic space and racial issues. It is understood that, as its construction is a cultural phenomenon, its form and organization are directly influenced by the environment to which it belongs. After 388 years of slavery in Brazil, it is observed that the system leaves traces that are reflected in Brazilian residential space, based on the perception of a pact that legitimizes this architecture. The study questions to what extent the typological house program was redefined after the abolition of slavery and the establishment of the Republic, in the light of a new modernity in Belo Horizonte at the beginning of the 20th century. Thus, this dissertation seeks to analyze a set of architectures, of Portuguese America and Imperial Brazil, their respective design projects (as well as finishing materials, flows, land insertion factor, location, etc.), and how the traces of racial segregation remain present in the residential architecture of Belo Horizonte from the early 20th Century to the mid-1930s. This research takes a critical position in relation to the Brazilian historiography from the 16th to the 19th centuries, with emphasis on the civil architectural production of Minas Gerais in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, from the interfaces between architecture and racial segregation. From this perspective, the aim is to advance discussions on racism, but now through the lens of architecture—by raising new pertinent questions that had not yet been raised and ultimately propose a new approach to the topic.