A arquitetura moderna de Heitor Maia Neto em Recife nos anos 50

This paper tries to present the production architectural of Heitor Maia Neto in the fifties in the city of Recife and his contributions in order to consider a suitable modern architecture to the tropics, working for this with a material of project and decurrent technician-constructive solutions of its influences of the napolitano master Mario Russo and the “ Escola Carioca”. Graduated architecture at the “Escola de Belas Artes de Recife” in 1952, Heitor was part of a composed group for names as Mauricio Castro and Everaldo Gadelha. In the first years of its professional performance, he worked with Russo in the University City Technician Office of the of Recife, absorbing of exactly, all the “racionalista” base that the napolitano teacher . In 1952, he was his first award , with the project for the Public Library of “Casa Amarela”, which applies the vocabulary architectural of modernity. He participates, in 1956,at the national competition for the construction of the “Monumento aos Pracinhas”, getting the second place, and in 1959, he considers a solution called architectural "double flagstone", that he searched to solve the climatic problems bred from the plain flagstone use in the modern projects, trying it for the first time in the residence Andrade and later in the “Cordeiro” and “Valença” houses. At the same time to such system, the architect considered others climatic solutions based in experiences contemporaries of architects as Niemeyer and Costa, always in the search for adapting the modern language to the local reality. It will be analyzed here, his residential production, tipologia more constructed by the architect in the studied period, as the “Araújo”, “ Morel”, “Castro”, ”Andrade”, ”Cordeiro”, ”Botelho”, ”Valença” houses. The importance of the work of Heitor for the consolidation of the modern architecture in the city of Recife has been briefly studied, being for this reason, inquiry object who I develop about the main responsible personages for this process.