Arquitetura e cidade: três obras em Campina Grande entre 1972 e 1985

Abstract

This paper analyzes the relationship between the city of Campina Grande and three buildings constructed between the years 1972 and 1985: the Museum of Arts Assis Chateaubriand, designed by Renato Azevedo, built between 1972 and 1976; the headquarters of the Federation of Industries of the State of Paraíba - FIEP - (the House of Industry Augustine Velloso da Silveira), designed by Cydno da Silveira and Amelia Gama, built between 1978 and 1983; and the Argemiro de Figueiredo Bus Terminal (New Bus Terminal), designed by Glauco José Luiz de Campello Pine France, inaugurated in 1985. The aim of this paper is to study howthese three buildings, articulated to each other, and considered here as focal points of the city, taking into account where each one of them is inserted, in accordance to the concept of urban fact advocated by Aldo Rossi (2001), contributed to the physical expansion of the city and still play key roles in the consolidation of the urban network of Campina Grande. Thus, the relationship between each one of the buildings and their surroundings will be analyzed, using the three scales of analysis proposed by Lamas (2010) and Rossi (2001): the scale of the plot (sectoral dimension), the scale of the neighborhood (urban dimension) and the scale of the city (regional dimension), in order to understand them, firstly individually, as components of a singular space, and then link them to the context of the city as a whole.