Republican modernity:
Benjamin Constant School Group and its spatial contradictions (1922-1927)
Abstract
This article analyzes how the school architecture collaborated to the formation of the republican imaginary, based on the Benjamin Constant School Group, founded in Belém-PA, during the First Republic. The bibliographical and documental research used as sources the reports of the governors of the time and of the director of this group. Although this Benjamin Constant School Group was part of the creation of school groups throughout the country, we see that its architecture did not fit the architectural guidelines for this type of institution. The reasons are the crisis of the rubber economy and, above all, its location in a working-class and peripheral neighborhood.