Uma trajetória des-viável: o percurso profissional de Arialdo Pinho entre Natal e Fortaleza

Abstract

A significant part of the architectural production of the 1950s and 1960s has being destroyed in Natal, reaching not only the building collection, but also bringing with it reminiscences of that time, including the authors of these projects, which were often not even mentioned or recognized in academic studies. Among those professionals with different formations and provenances, came up, in the restless search for the register of the still existing, Arialdo Pinho. Born in Rio de Janeiro, with the mastery of work technique and significant cultural contribution, on the edge of formal education, he arrives in Natal in 1951 and becomes an important reference of the residential modernist school. In 1958, already in Fortaleza-CE, continues the conquered potential in the light of his intellectual functions and to the narrow social relations. By supporting the gaps related to these circumstances, one wonders: how can the personal, intellectual and professional course of Arialdo Pinho materialized in the ventures of the two cities can be apprehended in the historiographical construction of edified cultural goods? It is believed, thus, that the moment was favorable for the execution of his projects in these capitals, which experienced the insufficiency of professionals with higher education, and whose clients composed by the elite, now demanded a differentiated architecture. In this perceptive outline, it is configured as starting point the trajectories and the professional vicissitudes and the knowledge and record of the architecture practice. It is intended, then, to understand the distinction of the paths traced by the professional Arialdo Pinho in his work between Natal and Fortaleza, contributing to the construction of a tool that condenses the information and at the same time stimulate and publicize new reflections about the architectural history of the city. To embrace these nuances, the theoretical contributions were based on the contributions concerning memory, patrimony and audiovisual. The static collections experienced by the use of the devices in the field experience resulted in the encounter with Arialdo Pinho and in the unfolding of his trajectory. The empirical experience manifested the documentary "Arialdo Pinho: A nonviable trajectory" as a material product, in free argumentative creation, of the thesis. Of these forgotten private paths, often neglected by specialized literature, it was evidenced a little understood and explored portrait of the incursions of the practice of the architecture and, therefore, of the history of the cities.