Arquitetura, ideologia e governança urbana: uma leitura a partir da cidade de Fortaleza-CE

Abstract

Historically, the production of institutional buildings has its own importance on the Brazilian political ideological framework. If there is something to regret concerning this heritage, it is the fact it has frequently been associated to the dogmatism and autocratic decisions. This text tries to reflect how this authoritarian and ideological character seeks justification on the concept of urban governance, however, paradoxically, it distorts its “good practice”. In order to understand this, the casual relation established between public management (in other words, urban governance) and the architectonic urban knowledge, which gains strategic importance, is taken into consideration since the city changes status from object to the status of subject- actor of urban policies, converting itself into a privileged lab to invigorate the economic social development policies. The analysis presented is supported by the prospection regarding the conception of / the conceiving idea for public institutional buildings in the city of Fortaleza for the past thirty years. On behalf of tourism and industrialization, this project effort is characterized by decisions that surpasses or ignore measurable data related to the socio-spatial reality that should guide urban interventions. Economic priority and the mystifying speech base the inconsistent insertion of autonomous objects, favoring new conflicts and urban distortions.