In the threshold of the 20th century, Curitiba swaggered one of the most controversial architecture styles which was emerging in Europe. For the first time Industrial revolution allowed façade exuberance to be purchased at common stores
Cândido de Abreu, Ernesto Guaita, Maurício Thá, Giovanni Lazzarini, José Muzzilo, Bergonse Brothers, Christian and Gustav Strobel, Gotlieb Wieland, Henrique Henning, Frederico Warneck, Augusto Huebel, Carlos Tathy. That huge architect team, most of its members being German or Italian, was the greater responsible for the Curitiba urban panorama at the turn of the century. Gathered with a bunch of non-academic bourgeoises, they blew up in Paraná State capital an architectural movement …show more content…
Intellectual critique was not always positive. When they don't refer to eclecticism as a "delirious invention" or "conscious option for a language diversity", they talked about "caricature", "pastiche" (imitation) and many other adjectives.
According to Marcelo Saldanha Sutil, historian and author of the master's degree thesis titled The Mirror and the mirage: Eclecticism, Housing and Modernity at Curitiba of the Beginning of the Century, defended by him in 1996 at the Federal University of Paraná (UFPR), Brazilian eclecticism came up from the bourgeoisie needs of self-affirmation. “A class which was not made by workers nor aristocrats was looking for an identity, so started to invest in architects”, said Sutil.
Foreign architects or those professionals formed abroad - there wasn’t so much as architecture schools in Brazil - dictated trends. Whose couldn’t afford a professional, appealed to a good master mason and to a number of architecture handbooks which taught to build. Mostly French and Italian editions were sold all