A casa unifamiliar em Florianópolis: um modo de ser moderno

Florianopolis was, in the decade of 1950, a small city seeking local and national reassurance as the Capital of the State of Santa Catarina. In order to achieve that, a new image of the city, an image of continuous progress, had to be created. The architecture acted as an efficient tool in this process and the center of Florianopolis was chosen as the stage. Buildings carrying the modern language - which was the sign of development in Brazil at that time - started to appear. The use of reinforced concrete was brought to the Island slowly. This was not, however, due to indolence of the local professionals - whose attention was constantly turned to the recent techniques and images brought by Architecture magazines - but to the the lack of sufficient material available and qualified workmanship to handle it. Yet, despite of every difficulty and limitation, the new buildings succeeded in showing the desire of being modern. The city kept growing and a new division of lots of the land was made in some of the central areas that were still occupied by small farms. New houses were built on those new lots, mostly for rich families, which were aware of the cycle of development happening all over the country. These owners constantly looked for the architects who designed houses in "clean" lines, which is the basis of modern language. This work approaches the subject by showing some examples of houses located in one of the lots mentioned, built during those times of changes, when the traditional houses with its self-supporting walls gave place to the modern model of house, structured with reinforced concrete. Two architecture plans will be presented, carrying the modern language in a bigger or smaller degree. The purpose of the study, more than rescuing and evidencing the quality of the projects, is to emphasize their historical relevance, not only to Florianopolis but to Brazil itself, by portraiting the spreading of the modern architecture over the country. Keywords: Modern Architecture, Inventory, Architecture house plan.