Contribuição à documentação e análise da Arquitetura Moderna em Minas Gerais: o caso de Uberaba

Uberaba City, placed in Mineiro Triangle, has it's history closely connected with the cattle raising, since the primal times of it's existance, when it was only a salter route and the two top economical activities were the livestock of Zebu cattle race. Meanwhile, the raising cattle elite was always related with the traditional phiilosophies and the architetonic modernity, in the 60's, presented characteristics of Neocolonial and Art Decó styles, marked by the rescue of important symbols of a traditional society with a strong arabian ancestry. Like the most cities of the country, only after the construction of the new capital, Uberaba accepted, incorporated and searched for the "modernity" influences, which constituted much more an "ideal" exhibited by it's architecture, than an effective developmentism embracing all spheres of the society. This work objectives to contribute with the documentation and conservation of the modern architectonical accumulation in Minas Gerais, from the presentation and historycal analisys of important exemplaries constructed in Uberaba City, in the Mineiro Triangle region. Between the edifications showed, are emphasized the Railroad Station, by Oswaldo Bratke, The Mail Building, first modern exemplary registered in a municipal level, and the State School Marechal Humberto A. Castelo Branco, attributed to Oscar Niemeyer, besides works os the most important diffusors and consolidators of the modern architecture in the city: the architects Wagner Schroden, Germano Gultzgoff, and much more others who didn't have architecture graduation, but in Builting Engeneering, who comprehended and translated the philosophy and the modernists concepts, like the engeneer Wilson Nassif.