https://repositorio.ufba.br/handle/ri/1215 Mon, 04 May 2026 19:35:21 GMT 2026-05-04T19:35:21Z https://repositorio.ufba.br/handle/ri/44039 Título: Habitar o Patrimônio: práticas cotidianas e disputas na preservação dos bens edificados Autor(es): Oliveira, Karine Camila Primeiro Orientador: Rosa, Thaís Troncon Abstract: This thesis investigates the tensions between the institutional discourses of preservation of built cultural heritage and the everyday practices of residents in listed cities, having as its empirical field the city of Goiás (GO). It seeks to understand how the ordinary experiences of inhabiting, circulating and intervening in listed buildings for improvements in their use, strain the authorized heritage discourses and, simultaneously, produce new meanings and values for preservation. It starts from the hypothesis that everyday social practices, more than resistances to the rigidity of the regulations, configure powerful mediations that re-signify heritage and inaugurate possibilities of shared and socially legitimized management. With a qualitative, critical and interdisciplinary approach, the research articulates foundations of architecture and urbanism, anthropology and decolonial epistemologies. The methodology encompasses four dimensions: bibliographic research and discussion on heritage as a field of dispute; documental and normative analysis of legislation, listing processes and preservation instruments; listening to lived experiences, through participant observation and oral narratives; and practical and collaborative experimentation, materialized in the Ybipitanga Project, which articulates initiatives of extension, culture, research and innovation at the Goiás Campus of the Federal University of Goiás, also included in the Conviver program of the Federal Government. The analytical structure extends from the urban scale, where authorized discourses and regulations are confronted, to the architectural scale, a lived space of dispute of values and of contradictions to technical-institutional tutelage. It defends a paradigm shift: from institutional authority to collective care; from normative imposition to active listening; from monumental exception to the appreciation of ordinary life. Despite the relevance of institutional action, the experimentation of everyday practices transforms the preservation of built heritage into a dialogical and inclusive process. Heritage, understood through experience, reveals itself as a living, relational and community-based practice, capable of articulating ethics, aesthetics and social justice in the urban space. Editora / Evento / Instituição: Universidade Federal da Bahia Tipo: Tese Mon, 08 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT https://repositorio.ufba.br/handle/ri/44039 2025-12-08T00:00:00Z https://repositorio.ufba.br/handle/ri/43903 Título: Uns Brutos Nordestinos: a arquitetura da administração pública entre expressões brutalistas globais e inflexões locais [1964-1985] Autor(es): Barbosa, Lucas Jordano de Melo Primeiro Orientador: Bierrenbach, Ana Carolina de Souza Abstract: This doctoral dissertation addresses the issue of understanding the development of Brutalism in the capitals of the Brazilian Northeast between 1964 and 1985, shifting the historiographical focus away from interpretations that directly associate architecture with the political regime then in power. The empirical objects of investigation are public administration buildings – headquarters of the Executive, Legislative, and Judiciary branches, as well as state agencies of indirect administration – considered exemplary as they most clearly embody the tension between the representation of state authority and the freedom of formal invention. The chosen scope stems from the recognition that these buildings constituted the most fertile ground for examining the design strategies that gave identity to the architectural production of the period. The central hypothesis posits that, in the capitals of the Brazilian Northeast, the Brutalism of public-administration buildings took shape as a particular expression of a disciplinary type in international circulation, revealing stronger formal affinities with transnational matrices than with the São Paulo–based Brazilian Brutalism. This hypothesis reframes the question from dependence to convergence of repertoires, examining whether an intellectual and formal synchronicity existed in the Brazilian Northeast with European, North American, and Asian debates on Brutalist expressiveness. Building on this hypothesis, the general objective is to analyze, through volumetric expression and compositional principles, this architectural production by identifying recurrent design patterns and critically comparing them across the nine capitals of the Brazilian Northeast. By pursuing this objective, the research contributes to broadening historiographical interpretations, distancing itself from reductionist readings that subordinate form to political causality, climatic determinism, or the presupposition of exclusive centers of diffusion. To achieve this goal, the adopted method combines a systematic survey of documentary sources – technical drawings, press archives, institutional collections, and photographic records – with an immanent analysis of the works. Drawing inspiration from Spinoza, this approach allows the buildings themselves to define the criteria of their interpretation, revealing what they express and what they withhold, without forcing them into pre-established categories. Conceptually, the research draws from Aristotle the notion of formal cause, understood here as a principle of organization that enables the interpretation of a projects’s internal logic through the synchronicity between its expressive and organizational strategies. From Lukács, it recovers the dialectic between the typical and the particular: each work is simultaneously constituted by the incorporation of ideas circulating within the disciplinary field and by the absorption of local idiosyncrasies, which particularize international repertoires in specific contexts. This conceptual triad supports an inside-out analytical approach, in which the formal logic of the works is articulated with historical circumstances and symbolic functions without being determined by them. The findings confirm the pertinence of the proposed scope and substantiate the hypothesis that the Brutalism in the Brazilian Northeast did not rely on the São Paulo–based Brazilian Brutalism as an intermediary for the ideas circulating in the Northern Hemisphere, but instead established a more direct and open dialogue with them than historiography has previously acknowledged. More specifically, the study identified a set of Brutalist buildings in the capitals of the Brazilian Northeast whose formal coherence reveals both the appropriation of widely disseminated disciplinary repertoires and their re-elaboration in local contexts. It also demonstrates that the Brutalist language was employed as a sign of state representation, yet without direct subordination to formal directives imposed by the authoritarian regime. The research further refutes the notion that climate determined the formal order of Brazilian Northeastern architecture, showing that the adopted solutions respond primarily to autonomous disciplinary logics. Consequently, the Brutalism produced in the capitals of the Brazilian Northeast between 1964 and 1985 emerges as a legitimate chapter in the history of modern architecture, whose intelligibility lies on its formal causes and on the expressive force of its works, in direct dialogue with a globally shared architectural idiom. Editora / Evento / Instituição: Universidade Federal da Bahia Tipo: Tese Mon, 22 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT https://repositorio.ufba.br/handle/ri/43903 2025-12-22T00:00:00Z https://repositorio.ufba.br/handle/ri/43750 Título: Canteiro colonial : trabalho, coerção e resistência Autor(es): Thiesen, José Rodolfo Pacheco Primeiro Orientador: Rosa, Thaís Troncon Abstract: The thesis investigates the political economy of architecture and construction in colonial Latin America, focusing on construction sites to analyse the dynamics of labour, coercion, and resistance. The investigation departs from the ontological foundations of labour, following the Lukácsian tradition. This theoretical basis allows for an analysis of how the "available time" of pre-colonial societies was converted into "surplus labour" in the colonial context. The production of monumental architecture was a privileged locus for this conversion. The dynamics of coercion and labour in the 16th-century Mexican Central Plateau are contrasted with those that developed in the Brazilian hubs of Atlantic slavery, particularly in 18th-century Bahia and Minas Gerais.In the Mexican Central Plateau, colonisation was based on indirect rule, leveraging the pre-existing hierarchical state structure. Indigenous groups even used the construction of convents as a form of palliative resistance to reaffirm political dominion over their territories. However, this constructive potential was drained by the Spanish elite-controlled indirect government for its own construction sites, such as that of Mexico City Cathedral, where wages were meagre and labour was compulsory. In contrast, Brazilian history was based on direct territorial control and a slave-based economy. Unlike in Mexico, the Brazilian colonial state lacked the power for direct coercion of labour and depended on private owners for this. The state thus resorted to large, privately managed construction projects or to modalities of renting enslaved people. The owners received the wage payment, and the enslaved were left with a fraction for their subsistence, struggling for a larger share to aspire to purchase their freedom. Despite the low effective remuneration, labour power was costly for the state, which was forced to fund the owners' income. This inhibited the production of monumental architecture in both volume and quantity. Urban wage labour, especially skilled labour, opened possibilities for freedom, though with many obstacles. The workers' struggle for freedom was comprehensive (for better working conditions, available time) and was not restricted to formal liberty. The thesis emphasises that effective freedom resides in emancipated collective labour. Editora / Evento / Instituição: Universidade Federal da Bahia Tipo: Tese Fri, 12 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT https://repositorio.ufba.br/handle/ri/43750 2025-12-12T00:00:00Z https://repositorio.ufba.br/handle/ri/43738 Título: Envoltórios arquitetônicos complexos : avaliação sistêmica de construtibilidade com aprendizado de máquina Autor(es): Brito, Bruno Leão de Primeiro Orientador: Checcucci, Érica de Sousa Abstract: The design of architectural envelopes with double curvature presents significant challenges related to constructability analysis. Although several studies address the generation, fabrication, and assembly of such forms, a gap remains in understanding how geometric characteristics impact the constructability of architectural envelopes. This research develops a method for investigating the constructability of architectural envelopes with complex surfaces during the design phase, considering geometric characteristics, fabrication methods, and structural materials through systematic exploration of the solution space and surrogate modeling using machine learning. An architectural envelope with double curvature was defined, featuring a quadrilateral mesh structured by arches and purlins made of plywood, with polycarbonate panel infill. Algorithmically generated parametric models were used to obtain a sample space of envelope solutions, which served as the basis for analyzing fabrication and structural performance and for identifying constructively feasible instances, as well as for training machine learning models. The results indicate that envelopes with continuous arches exhibit superior structural and fabrication performance, and the study also yields performance indicators, correlations between geometric parameters, fabrication characteristics, and structural performance, in addition to machine learning models. Editora / Evento / Instituição: Universidade Federal da Bahia Tipo: Tese Wed, 08 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMT https://repositorio.ufba.br/handle/ri/43738 2025-10-08T00:00:00Z