Arquitetura evanescente

Is a history of non-preservation possible? The guiding question Fernando Atique is what asks in this book, while studying the disappearance of two buildings in Rio in the 1970s: the Monroe Palace, designed for an exhibition in the United States and reassembled in Brazil in 1906, served as the seat of the Chamber of Deputies and the Federal Senate; Solar Monjope, completed in 1928, was an important stage for meetings between Brazilian architects and artists. In addition to academic discussions about their architectural value, the buildings stimulated demands for the preservation of non-specialists, coming from a large part of society; even so, requests for registration with the preservation agencies were denied. This reality motivated the research around the process of idealization, production, circulation and reception of architecture, which reverberates in the social environment as a fundamental part of urban life, in an intricate game of memory, history and urbanity.