The importance of documentation by sketches in exploratory city travels - From Brasília to Goiás, from modern to colonial

Abstract

Drawing is a practice from cave times, as seen in the documentary records of various locations around the world. Nowadays it is an increasingly common practice among movements of street sketchers around the world, and it has been rescued as a form of documentary record of architecture and the city. In the old exploratory voyages, this practice was also used as a way to register the New World, in the vision of the Naturalists. In architecture, it was widely used as a way to rescue historical monuments, as used by Viollet-le-Duc, Boito and the antiquarians, for the ? rst two, also as a way to know the city and architecture, a practice also used by Lúcio Costa to know Portuguese Architecture. ? us, this essay presents the documental register by sketches in exploratory city travels from Brasília to Goiás, from Modern to Colonial, as a way to know, walking through the cities and registering in drawings or sketches the ? rst impressions of the place, which was achieved starting from Brasília, passing through Goiânia, with representatives of Modern and Art Dèco Architecture; in the City of Goiás, with representatives of Art Nouveau, Neo-Gothic and Colonial Architecture; and in Pirenópolis and Corumbá de Goiás, with representatives of Colonial Architecture.