Com as mãos sujas de cal e de tinta, homens de múltiplas habilidades:

Beatriz Piccolotto Siqueira Bueno

Beatriz Piccolotto Siqueira Bueno É graduada em História pela Universidade de São Paulo (1990) e em Artes Plásticas pela Fundação Armando Álvares Penteado (1988), com doutorado na Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo da USP (2001), onde leciona desde 2002. Suas pesquisas versam sobre História da Urbanização e do Urbanismo no Brasil, Cultura Profissional dos Arquitetos e Engenheiros e História da Cartografia. É autora do livro Desenho e Desígnio: o Brasil dos engenheiros militares (1500-1822). São Paulo: Edusp/ Fapesp, 2011.

Keywords: Military Engineers, Cartography, Portuguese America, XVI-XIX Centuries

Abstract

More than two hundred military engineers were present in Brazil between the sixteenth and the early decades of the nineteenth. Their multifaceted training allowed them to work in fields as diverse as military civil and religious architecture, public works infrastructure (docks, bridges, sidewalks, waterworks) and mapping the territory. Theoretical and practical at the same time, these are the most knowledgeable construction professionals in a poorly urbanized Brazil. The enviable cartographic legacy of military engineers, today, enables to characterize the work and the strategic role accomplished in colonial settings.

With their hands dirty with lime and paint, men of multiple abilities

military engineers and cartography in Portuguese America (16th-19th century)

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