Atlas Cuiabano: uma experiência independente de Educação Patrimonial

This paper supports and exemplifies the elaboration of a graphic material of recognition and dissemination of the architectural heritage of Cuiabá, MT. The material is composed by an integrated system of thematic maps, photographs, drawings, with the identification and characterization of modern buildings built in the capital of Mato Grosso throughout the 20th century. Without the pretension of exhausting the totality of the process of renewal of the local architecture, the research highlights the groups of buildings with the greatest impact on urban development and subsequent architectural culture - buildings considered key to the understanding of the urban and architectural history of Mato Grosso, for the urban expansion of the capital and renewing the architectural vocabulary and construction used then. The proposal is to map and organize critically such modernizing interventions, considering their impact on the expansion of the city and the transformations in the urban landscape of Cuiabá, between the decades of 1930 and 1980. Among this scope, indistinctly temporal and spacial, its imposed as preferencial objects of the research (the end of the 1930s onwards), the complex of the Political- Administrative Center (1972-76) and the UFMT campus complex (from the late 1960s onwards). The objective of the proposed graphic material is to increase the diffusion of historical and theoretical information about the modern architectural heritage of Cuiabá to the most diverse publics, in a critical, didactic and synthetic way, contributing to possible patrimonial education actions. It is ultimately aimed the preservation of these buildings, whose original architecture is either adulterated or threatened with decharacterization. The problem arises from the absence of actions geared for heritage education in the capital and the lack of adequate graphic material for this purpose. Its elaboration can contribute to sensitize and educate the population of Cuiabá as to the valuable modern heritage of their city.