A casa, o jardim e a rua no Brasil do século XIX

Abstract

This paper has as its starting point the work The mansions and the shanties, by Gilberto Freyre, as its source material some voyager’s writings, and as its object of study the
house, the Brazilian garden, and the street of the 19th century. It deals with some transformation by which architecture and open spaces passed throughout this century, and
compares those two, three and four-storey houses, built up in the alignment of the lot and in its lateral limits ”“ their “orchard-ornamental-vegetable garden” in the backyard ”“ with those two-storey houses from the last decades of the 19th century, under European influence, with their ornamental garden separeted from orchard and vegetable gardens, situated then in the front yard and beside the house. It also deals with some transformation of urban streets: their being paved, the creation of sidewalks, the beginnig of street lighting, and the planting of trees along the streets, emphasizing the relation between internal and external changes of the urban lot, which would contribute significantly to transformation of Brazilian urban landscape at the 19th century.