Traditionalist modernity in the Cuiabá civic architecture under Vargas regime

Abstract

This article aims to articulate about the suppression of the architectural production of Brazilian’s inland cities in the 1930s and 1940s, mostly eclectic, in the discussions of patrimonial protection and Brazilian historiography. Thereunto we used buildings built in Cuiabá during that period as study objects. Although these buildings are from the same period, they have different characteristics, sometimes more adhering to classical and traditional aspects, sometimes free of ornaments and more “modern looking”, in the sense of being new and not from the modern international style. This lack of definition, works and research about these buildings, in addition to the fact that they are located far from the major centers of the country — where most of the history and theory researches about Brazilian’s architecture is concentrated — outcomes in invisibility of important productions for historiography, giving rises to anachronisms of these achievements in the production of the modern movement, in addition, cause documentary and monumental losses due to the lack of recognition and protection of these projects.