HERITAGE IN A LOGIC OF DELETION: An analysis of the processes of meaning of heritage present in the logic of deletion in São Paulo (Atena Editora)

Abstract

The importance given to a reading that understands the architectural heritage in its most authentic form, that is, that values the contingent cultural qualities associated with the building, has been a central theme of debate in the universe of heritage safeguarding. We recognize that architecture will be conditioned by existing cultural meaning. However, we observe preservationist approaches that capture the cultural significance and the identification of values and attributes, from a more objective perspective regarding the relevance of the historic building, which hardly considers spontaneous manifestations of affective bonds and belonging, which may come to represent different forms. of symbolic appropriations of urban spaces and of an integrated and living memory. By conceiving the architectural heritage as a social construction, always in transformation, the present work problematizes the paradoxes of patrimonialization in the valorization of the memory of São Paulo through the analysis of the processes of intrinsic meaning in the appropriations of architectural heritage located in the historic center of the city of São Paulo. The territory is characterized by erasure policies, resulting from the construction of São Paulo's collective memory. The observed results will be discussed in the light of the theoretical debate on the manifestation of memory as an intrinsic phenomenon in the process of occupation and resistance. In search of a more democratic heritage safeguard, this analysis seeks to contribute to the signaling and recognition of new narratives, in order to assign value, define strategies linked to cultural heritage and go beyond an interpretation of architectural heritage solely by its materiality.