Casas sagradas Aruak & Tukano: arquitetura clássica do noroeste amazônico

Abstract

The architectonic manifestations of the autochthonous people in Brazil do not find a place in the theories and History of Brazilian architecture, it s as if they had no contribution to offer as models of stability, comfort, and beauty which is what they are. As I traveled around some hydrographic bays of the Amazon that has always been an issue that arouse my interest as an architect. I work with the IPHAN (Historic and National Artistic Heritage Institute), here in the Amazon, and I asked myself about this gap in the sphere of interest of the Ministry of Culture. The Black River is the research s locus which I began developing with these on, which soon was directed to the house-villages, indigenous traditional in habitations of the Aruak and Tukano speaking people, which were described by the ethnologists who dedicated themselves to the study of material culture. The outcome of these works throughout these seven years broadened the net of partners. As the Socioambiental Institute adviser I made many architecture workshops with the indigenous communities, having as object the house-villages in the northwestern Amazon: a workshop in 2005 among the Tuyuka in the upper Tiquié River, a tributary of the Uaupés River; and another workshop in Iauaretê, the City of the Indian , in 2007 at the Tariano Cultural Center. Taking on an ethnographic perspective, I drew up narratives of these events and I developed an approach considering distinct temporalities to reveal the sense of housevillages nowadays. The optic of the architect passes through the theory and History of architecture, which allows us to think on the production of space and time, and the sense of architecture itself through these house-villages which keep in themselves a vision of the world.