Da Belle Époque à Cidade Olímpica: urbanismo, arquitetura e arte pública na Praça Mauá do Rio de Janeiro

Abstract

Owning historical relevance, the Mauá Square has been present in the urban structure of the city of Rio de Janeiro since the beginning of its formation process to the contemporaneity. Based on the concepts of materiality of the city; system of actions and of objects; and urban imaginary, the objective of this thesis was to evince the historical trajectory of the Mauá Square through the analysis of urbanism, architecture and public art. Thus, the history of the city of Rio de Janeiro was synthesized, the transformative actions in the space of the Mauá Square were analyzed and the consequences of the urban, architectural and public art interventions to the identity of the square were considered in the temporal frame between 1910 and 2017. The projects of Pereira Passos management (1906), the Agache Plan (1930), the Doxiadis Plan (1965) and the Porto Maravilha Urban Operation (2009) are highlighted, since the physical transformations in Mauá Square were characterized by hygienist and embellishment policies of 1906; remodeling and embellishment policies of 1930; efficiency and functionalism policies of 1965; and urban space spectacularization policies in contemporary times. It was concluded, then, that the four main interventions in Mauá Square were linked to the making and renovation of the image of the city of Rio de Janeiro in which the Mauá Square played a prominent role.