Restauração arquitetônica: a experiência do SPHAN em São Paulo, 1937-1975

Documental research based in primary sources and disperses information explaining in detail the most important interventions and restoration works done in SÀo Paulo by the SPHAN (Historic and Artistic Nacional Patrimony Service), a pioneer conservation institution created in 1936. The author with a critic eye evaluates the not always clear conceptual projects and the methodological justification actions in 4 intervention works done from 1939 to 1975 in the paulista city.