João Batista Vilanova Artigas, the being’s and creating’s construction

a dialogue between History and Architecture

Abstract

This article intend to show, based on the dialogue between History an Architecture, the intricacies that led to the preservation of the heritage resulting of the Brazilian architect João Batista Vilanova Artigas’ job, as well as from the ideas and ideals inherent on his efforts. Besides that, indicate the personal care concerning the safeguarding of the mentioned collection (built over Artigas’s whole lifetime) and to dispose it for students, disciples, scholars, historians and other researchers. Such enterprise shall be expressed by means of the management which historians may accomplish regarding the sources ensuing the architect’s occupation, specifically those concerning the design and the built work. In the meantime, we will also address up the conversion of Artigas’s private collection (originally preserved as a foundation, by Artigas), into an organization, subsequent to his death, in addition to the donation of his collected works to a public institution − the "Filing Department of the Sector of Architecture Projects", located in a public building designed and built by Artigas himself in order to shelter the Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo da Universidade de São Paulo (Architecture and Urbanism School, University of São Paulo).