Arquitetura moderna em João Pessoa

The subject proposed can be classified in the session one or two. If on the other hand, it deals with a local example of the diverse regional acclimatization and adaptation of the modern architecture general principles, giving the dimension of the diffusion of this movement for all the country, it also deals with the modern as national patrimony and is a result of a joint work developed in the university in the direction to register, to conserve, to protect, to consider falling and to elaborate Paraiba's modern patrimony restoration projects. The protection of the architecture and the modern urban places, more than the oldest units, it delayed to be assimilated. Brasilia was first city to be cogitated for conservation and the more difficult subject of being understood by its pioneer condition, for its ‘little age’, for its dimensions and for being a young city in full activity. Still today it is difficult speaking about modern conservation, it is not used to think the modern as patrimony, mainly in a country that, despite the statistics, still is considered young. More difficult still it is to deal with this subject in the little and peripheral cities. Until the years 1950, the cities known for the modern production, except Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo and Minas Gerais, they were, beyond capitals as Recife and Salvador, isolated and circumstantial examples as Cataguazes. In the two last decades the number of works grows and rescue the modern architecture in most places of the country and reveals architects and engineers whose production deserves register, it is the case of Moacir Gomes and Arialdo Pinho in Natal, Geraldino Pereira Duda in Campina Grande and Clodoaldo Gouveia and Mário de Lascio in João Pessoa. In this direction the objective of this communication is to make a rocking of the works already carried through on modern architecture in Paraíba and to divulge a research in progress that, from a preliminary listing of the examples found in the city of João Pessoa, it is carrying through an inventory, that consists in graphical registers, descriptions and analytical papers of this production.