A hinterland among many others: cattle farms in northern streams

Author(s)

Nathália Maria Montenegro Diniz

• Document type: Doctoral Thesis
• Press: São Paulo.
• Institution: Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo (FAU/SBI)
• Defense date: 2013-04-29

Examining board members

Beatriz Piccolotto Siqueira Bueno; Clovis Ramiro Jucá Neto; Paulo César Garcez Marins

• Advisor: Beatriz Piccolotto Siqueira Bueno

Abstract

This thesis analyses rural architecture related to the cattle faming, in the XIX century, in the hinterland (sertão) that spreads over the northern area of the modern states of Piauí, Ceará, Rio Grande do Norte, Paraíba and Bahia. In comparative perspective, investigates main houses bringing forward it´s similarities and the particular features of the project design, in an attempt to unveil the vernacular logic and relate these subjects to available materials, construction techniques and methods. This work demystifies the idea of an uniform northeastern region, regarding landscape and material culture and sets a new way to study rural architecture, in a global way and with systemic perspective, verifying the regional interfaces across and beyond the area of the current involved states. (AU)

• FAPESP's process: 09/09508-1 - Cultural landscape: the cattle farms of northeast hinterland
• Grantee: Nathália Maria Montenegro Diniz
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate