Civil Engineering and Architecture Vol. 4(3), pp. 139 - 145
DOI: 10.13189/cea.2016.040306
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Gilberto Freyre's Work: Between Urban Morphology and Building Typology - First Approaches

Solange de Aragão ^1,*, André Marques ^2
1 Department of Exact Sciences, Nove de Julho University, Brazil
² Sao Judas Tadeu University, Brazil

ABSTRACT

There are many possible ways of reading Gilberto Freyre's work. One can read them to know about Brazilian society; other to understand the process of mixing races from which resulted Brazilian people; yet some other can do that to get to know the History of Brazil from a sociological point of view. But there is also another possibility which is to find morphological and typological approaches throughout Freyre's work. Since the sociologist adopted the house as the centre of interest of a great part of his works, and analyzed it to comprehend Brazilian society, there is a lot of information in his texts regarding certain types of buildings, as well as information concerning the cities where these buildings were placed. In fact, Gilberto Freyre was one of the first Brazilian researchers who gave attention to the study of the traditional house in relation to the urban landscape it composed. We aim here to present some morphological and typological approaches in Gilberto Freyre's work, considering the trilogy composed by The masters and the slaves, The mansions and the shanties, and Order and Progress, as well as some other important works in which he deals with the theme of the Brazilian house.

KEYWORDS
Gilberto Freyre's Work, Urban Morphology, Building Typology, The Brazilian House, 19th Century

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[1] Solange de Aragão , André Marques , "Gilberto Freyre's Work: Between Urban Morphology and Building Typology - First Approaches," Civil Engineering and Architecture, Vol. 4, No. 3, pp. 139 - 145, 2016. DOI: 10.13189/cea.2016.040306.

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Solange de Aragão , André Marques (2016). Gilberto Freyre's Work: Between Urban Morphology and Building Typology - First Approaches. Civil Engineering and Architecture, 4(3), 139 - 145. DOI: 10.13189/cea.2016.040306.