Preservation of historic cities: case study of tipping Antonina /PR

Abstract

Among assignments of IPHAN as the institution responsible for preservation of Brazilian heritage, the patrimony of the urban centers is one of the most debated both academically and in the daily practice of the institution. We can understand this fact by the conflicts generated by other public institutions with property owners and especially when the protected object is something as complex as a city. Based on the studies and texts written about the practice of preservation of historic cities by IPHAN, especially the works of FONSECA (2005), SANTANNA (1995) and GONÇALVES (1996), the Equity Letters, articles published on the subject of Magazine Heritage National Historical and Artistic and analysis of Administrative Ordinances published by the institution, we can understand that the conception of historical cities by IPHAN has changed substantially over the course of seven decades of organ operation. The inclusion of new concepts in practical influenced previously consolidated view where the city was understood as a simple sum of material goods, showing that the growth momentum makes it a very rapidly changing. This article aims to highlight this process by analyzing the tipping Antonina, seaside town of Parana state, which unlike most of the historical cities consecrated by the federal tipping presents a heterogeneous architectural ensemble in stylistic character, extremely mischaracterized in bad state of conservation and in a historical context so far ignored by Brazilian historiography.