O inventário do acervo do engenheiro Rubens Meister: um patrimônio a se salvaguardar.

Abstract

The article defends the safeguarding of the professional acquis of engineer Rubens Meister from the legislation on current assets. The life trajectory and the production of this engineer raises important reflections for the history of architecture and engineering in Curitiba – especially, for the modernization of these fields of activity between the decades of 1940 to 1990. The authors present the inventory of the professional acquis of this professional and some hypotheses about the contribution of Rubens Meister to the modern architecture made in Paraná and Santa Catarina, provinces of South Brazil. Particularly, for the conformation of the urban and cultural Curitiba’s landscape. The text is based on the research conducted by the authors between the years 2016 and 2019. The research methods and strategies and their main results are discussed: a more integral view of the legacy of this character. Not only as a pioneer of modern architecture in Paraná, but as the responsible for creating the first specialized office of architectural projects and the first course of architecture and urbanism in this State. It is in this singular way to face the production of projects, buildings, classes, conferences, these and other contributions signed by Rubens Meister that advocates the need to safeguard this patrimony. We charge the continuity of concrete policies and actions in a collective effort to preserve the memory of this field of knowledge and technical knowledge. It proposes the creation of a specific institution, whose purpose would be to gather this and other relevant collections in our area.