Entre tradições e modernidades: representações sobre a arquitetura neogótica nas décadas de 1910 e 1920 na cidade do Recife

Abstract

This paper proposes to highlight and analyze representations about the neo-Gothic architecture productions in the city of Recife in the 1910s and 1920s. These were discourses produced by influential intellectuals on the pages of newspapers with wide circulation in the city, at a time when Recife was undergoing transformations in its physiognomy and in its sociability, anchored in the senses of modernization and civilization. From an analysis of journalistic sources, interpretations of the speeches were sought from the perspective of a Cultural History of Representations in order to understand the different meanings of civilization, tradition and modernity in dispute, the consequent practices from these meanings and where neo-gothic architecture was part of these different city projects dreamed of for Brazilian capitals in the First Republic.