Banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO: PETTERSON MICHEL DANTAS

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STUDENT : PETTERSON MICHEL DANTAS
DATE: 24/04/2026
TIME: 14:00
LOCAL: remoto
TITLE:

“THREE CENTURIES OF GRAPHIC REPRESENTATION: The development of architectural drawing in Brazil (17th-19th centuries).

KEY WORDS:

history of architectural drawing, drawing morphology, Brazilian architecture.

PAGES: 234
BIG AREA: Ciências Sociais Aplicadas
AREA: Arquitetura e Urbanismo
SUBÁREA: Fundamentos de Arquitetura e Urbanismo
SPECIALTY: História da Arquitetura e Urbanismo
SUMMARY:

This thesis investigates architectural drawing in Brazil between the seventeenth and nineteenth
centuries, understanding it as a technical and cultural product introduced through the process of
colonization. Throughout its history, Brazil underwent distinct political contexts, and both external
and internal factors influenced architectural production, as well as the ways in which architecture
was represented. Covering the period from 1609 to 1890, this research aims to examine the
appropriation and use of architectural drawing in Brazil. To this end, two main dimensions are
explored: the sources through which architectural drawing was disseminated and its application in
the representation of buildings within the Brazilian territory. While the first dimension investigates
references that may have influenced the teaching and production of architectural drawing, the
second focuses directly on the analysis of projects developed for Brazil. Which approaches and
conventions present in publications guided architectural drawing at the time? In what contexts were
these works employed to support architectural projects developed for Brazil? What continuities,
discontinuities, insertions, or graphic innovations can be identified in projects produced in Brazil
during this period? These questions are addressed throughout the research, which, from a
theoretical standpoint, engages with the work of Docci (2018) by approaching architectural
representation from a historical perspective, and is grounded in the analytical dimensions proposed
by Sainz (2005) for the study of architectural drawing. Methodologically, a long-term qualitative
approach is adopted, in which classical treatises, military manuals, and nineteenth-century
compendia are examined alongside the graphic attributes of preserved architectural projects. The
analysis of this body of documentation makes it possible, on the one hand, to elucidate the process
by which architectural drawing was constituted as an object of instruction and, on the other, to
understand the morphology of architectural drawing in Brazil since its introduction, highlighting
the mediations between practice, appropriation, and the transmission of this knowledge throughout
the period under study.

 

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