The successful block of the city: Art-Déco and the architectural changes in Fortaleza during the 1930s and 1940s. / Quarteirão sucesso da cidade: o Art Déco e as transformações arquitetônicas na Fortaleza de 1930 e 1940

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2007

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This essay investigates the process of modernization of Fortaleza, in years 1930 and 1940, having as object the architectural transformations placed in the city, more specifically in its center, where the changes occurred with bigger resonance. This process took place in a context of intense urban reforms, material progress, technological development, acceleration of the urban dynamics, bigger rationality and functionality, population and territorial growth, increment of the consumption and expansion of the capital, also strong marked for the increasing of North American influence, the Second Great World War and the spreading and acceptance of the aesthetic Art Déco. The main intention of this work is to produce a research that contributes for the history of Modernity in Fortaleza, understood as a set of economic, cultural and social modifications, having as principal focus the architecture.

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history of architecture-brazil arquitetura art-déco-fortaleza (ce) modernidade-fortaleza (ce) art-déco architecture-fortaleza (ce) modernity-fortaleza (ce) história da arquitetura-brasil

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