The São Paulo city in transformation: the projects Joseph-Antoine Bouvard to Anhangabaú and Dom Pedro II Park

• Grant number: 14/09231-8
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: August 01, 2014
• End date: July 31, 2015
• Field of knowledge: Applied Social Sciences - Architecture and Town Planning - Architecture and Urbanism Project
• Principal Investigator: Sergio Luis Abrahão
• Grantee: Oscar Felizardo Escudero
• Host Institution: Centro Universitário FIAMFAAM (UNIFIAMFAAM). Associação de Cultura e Ensino. São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

In 1911, inaugurated in the high ridges of the Anhangabaú Valley the Municipal Theatre of São Paulo, which associated with the construction of the Viaduct of Chá in 1892, reflected the necessity for a movie set more suited to the transformations forced by the agro-export economy (coffee and sugar) and an incipient industrialization. Indeed, in 1911, the Frenchman Joseph-Antoine Bouvard was commissioned to realize two projects of embellishment and functionality to the city of São Paulo, reconciling the economic and political concerns of the time. We are referring to the Project for Anhangabaú Valley and the Floodplain of Carmo, which was to be in Park D. Pedro II. This research project aims to investigate the economic and political history, which informed the projects of French urbanist Joseph-Antoine Bouvard to the city of São Paulo, identifying the conditions of their funding and the interests involved therein.