Identificação de residências ecléticas do centro histórico de Santa Maria/RS: apontamentos para um inventário arquitetônico

Abstract

This study presents a survey of the eclectic architectural heritage of residential buildings in the Historic Center of Santa Maria – properties that represents identity and memory of local society, belonging to the urban landscape, endowed with historical significance, artistic, aesthetic, stylistic, symbolic formal and/or cultural. It has also been analyzed some of the main buildings of the eclecticism in the central area of Santa Maria as Mariano da Rocha Residence, Lozza Residence, Alvares da Cunha Residence, among others, as well as samples of more modest architecture. Eclecticism has been understood as a movement characterized by a mixture of architectural styles from the past, in contrast to Historicism, which sought to rescue and rebuild the architecture of yesteryear, yielding revival styles (neoclassical, gothic revival, the roman revival the baroque revival among others). The historical and descriptive survey has a qualitative approach. It brings the study of aesthetic and plastic language used on the facades of the identified buildings. The other issue among the goals is to recognize and evaluate the eclectic buildings built in Santa Maria. These consist of a theoretic and iconographic data collection for land registry surveys, inventories and registration of historic places, as well as other records and research.