Albert Löfgrene and the study of Exotic plants introduced in the state of Sao Paulo

• Grant number: 13/13544-9
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: August 01, 2013
• End date: June 30, 2014
• Field of knowledge: Applied Social Sciences - Architecture and Town Planning - Fundamentals of Architecture and Urbanism
• Principal Investigator: Marta Enokibara
• Grantee: Mariana Pereira Gonçalves
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Arquitetura, Artes e Comunicação (FAAC). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Bauru. Bauru , SP, Brazil

Abstract

This research project aims to contribute to the unfolding of the research "Technical and theoretical knowledge about the city, between Europe and the Americas: professionals, ideas and techniques in the consolidation of an urban culture in São Paulo", originally entered in FAPESP Thematic Project entitled "Knowledge scholarly and technical configuration and reconfiguration of urban space: the state of São Paulo, nineteenth and twentieth centuries" (2006-2011).The specific objective is to continue to "Trials Cataloging" adopted as a strategy by the research team of professors from UNESP-Bauru, who was part of the Thematic Project above, having as its object of study the performance of the botanist Alberto Lofgren, particularly about his research called "exotic plants introduced in the state of São Paulo", published in 1906.