O ideário imperial na cidade da Parahyba: Uma incursão no patrimônio arquitetônico neoclássico

Abstract

This study aims to stress the importance of neoclassical architectural heritage in the capital city of Parahyba, highlighting the sociocultural aspects that guided its production and the main formal indicators that characterized its buildings. The research uses the historiography on the subject and the specific architectural examples, considering the performance of military engineering professionals who produced the repertoire in the city. Considering that part of this heritage was decharacterized by the overlapping of new architectonic slopes, iconographic research was fundamental for the identification and mapping of real estate built or remodeled according to the prerogatives of the style. The architectural survey and the digitization of the respective floor plans, as well as the photographic survey of the façades and the internal spaces, compose the produced material that, organized through records, gather all the basic information about each building. Given the focus on local architectural production, based on military engineering, the research highlights a topic little explored in the historiography on neoclassical architecture in Brazil, whose relevance lies in two main aspects: the first concerns the theoretical contribution within the theme, and the second refers to the documentary nature of the work, since it allows to inventory the neoclassical architectural legacy in the ancient city of Parahyba.