Recortes urbanos: a perda do Patrimônio Moderno em Florianópolis

Urban cuts: the loss of the modern heritage in Florianópolis The city of Florianópolis had an increased growth at the decade of 1950. Besides the appearance of new neighborhoods, many changes occured in occupied áreas. The opening of new roads brought an increase of occupation of the central área of the city witch happened mainly due to the creation of lots in areas previously occupied by smallholdings. A new landscape is created, composed by houses with different compositions, from the most historicist to the more modernist. Some of these private buildings stand out as faithfull representants of the modern movement, as it is the Zipser residence, projected by the architect Hans Broos. The building of the first exemples of the modernist architecture in the Island coincide with the development cicle that was happening at the fifties in the country. Since the decade of 30, the brazilian state invested in the modernist ideas and financed the construction of public buildings all over the country, projected with the racionalist language. The local government also gave credit to this new architecture financing buildings such as the Prédio das Secretarias, whose ameboid awning, supported on a huge group of columns, holds one of the corners of the historical downtown. Nowadays, the downtown has a high rating of urban renew, mostly due to the high real state speculation, such as the whole municipality. Many houses, builded at the previously quoted period, were already demolished, changed to vertical buildings, and the ones that resist are usually in a terrible state of conservation, or completely changed. When one walks under the awning of the Prédio das Secretarias, one can see the marble columns hidden by posts of events, accentuating the despise on the modern heritage. The devaluation of the moder heritage, and even its loss, is a reality at the city of Florianópolis. Through the presentation of some urban cuts, made at the decades of 1950 and 1970 and located at Florianópolis Downtown, the present article intends to point the quality of some projects and its historical importance, to the city as to the country, for painting the difusion of the modern architecture through Brazil.