Spanish Colonial Revival
the contribution of American architecture in Belo Horizonte at the beginning of the 20th century
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https://doi.org/10.24220/2318-0919v22e2025a10350Abstract
This article investigates the appropriation and acclimatization of the Spanish Colonial Revival in Brazil in the first half of the 20th century. This architecture, which is part of the broad framework of American architectural culture, arrived in Brazil during the interwar period and was consolidated during the 1940s. The city of Belo Horizonte is a case study because it was a city planned in the spirit of order and progress, implemented by the republican agenda of the late 19th century. The city was open to the ideas of modernity, which were processed in the minds of architects and property owners and resulted in the appropriation of foreign architectural styles in Brazil. This created a favorable environment for the reception of the Spanish Colonial Revival, an architecture consolidated in California during the second decade of the 20th century, which inherited a Spanish tradition that had become part of the
daily life of this part of the Viceroyalty of New Spain since the 16th century. This architecture arrived in Brazil within
a context marked by a broad cultural spectrum shared with the United States and was consolidated on Brazilian land through the geopolitical (re)arrangement of the West initiated in the 19th century, and consolidated in the 20th century.
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