Industrial architecture in Sorocaba: the case of textile factories

Author(s)

Marco Antônio Leite Massari

• Document type: Master's Dissertation
• Press: São Paulo.
• Institution: Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo (FAU/SBI)
• Defense date: 2011-04-29

Examining board members

Monica Junqueira de Camargo; Beatriz Mugayar Kuhl; Ricardo Hernan Medrano

• Advisor: Monica Junqueira de Camargo

Abstract

This master\'s degree dissertation discourses about the industrialization of Sorocaba (SP), having as a case study the early big textile industries of the town, founded between the years of 1881 and 1913. These are the following: Fábrica Nossa Senhora da Ponte, Fábrica Santa Rosália, Fábrica Santa Maria, Alvejaria, Tinturaria e Estamparia São Paulo e Fábrica Santo Antônio. Inserted in the set of themes of industrial heritage, we have sought to talk about the reasons for these specimens to be worth of preservation, by analyzing what was done by the Public Law and by the civil society in favor of this objective and by exposing several incongruences in the way how this preservation took place. Based on a rich photographic documentation, we sought to present a historical survey of the five factories, pointing out the interrelations existing among them, from the foundation until the present days. Apart from that, we also made use of documents related to the processes of governmental trust, along with an extensive research in seasonable newspapers, interviews with former employees and old owners, and likewise visitations to sites, thus allowing a comprehensive picture of the objects of study. In the end, we emphasized not having collected definite answers to the researched questions, but inquiries for future new researches that might bring hope that modifying the attitude towards these movables might be possible, both from the preservation public agencies\' side and from the Sorocabana society\'s in general, thus assuring that the forthcoming generations may have access to the massive knowledge of which those movables, veritable historical documents, are detainers. (AU)