A trajetória de Jacques Pilon no centro de São Paulo: análise das obras de 1940 a 1947

• Autor(a) principal: Franco, Tiago Seneme
• Data de Publicação: 2009
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações do Mackenzie
• Texto Completo: http://dspace.mackenzie.br/handle/10899/26088
• topic: Jacques Pilon; arquitetura moderna; São Paulo; Brasil; Jacques Pilon; modern architecture; São Paulo; Brazil; CNPQ::CIENCIAS SOCIAIS APLICADAS::ARQUITETURA E URBANISMO

The current article presents the trajectory of Jacques Pilon in downtown of São Paulo city through a panoramic view of all his work in the region and further analysis of selected projects encompassing his production from 1940 to 1947. Jacques Pilon was born in the French city of Le Havre in 1905, and came to Brazil in 1910, going back to France in order to conclude his studies in 1927, where he was graduated on Architecture at the École des Beaux-Arts from Paris. His return to Rio de Janeiro happens in 1933, when he starts his work in Robert Prentice s office. He is sent to São Paulo in 1934 for following up the construction of Sulacap building. When he arrives at the emergent São Paulo capital, Pilon meets Engineer Francisco Matarazzo Neto and opens a partnership office with him Pilmat elaborating several projects from 1935 to 1939. With the end of Pilmat, Jacques Pilon opens his own office and counts with several collaborators, with Herbert Duschenes, Franz Heep, Giancarlo Gasperini, and Jerônimo Bonilha Esteves among them. With Heep s arrival in 1947, Jacques Pilon begins to abandon project conceptions, relying on his collaborators for this task. In approximately 25 years of production in São Paulo capital, Jacques Pilon produced about 60 projects in the downtown, with the great majority being composed by vertical buildings, destined to offices or homes. This feature grants his work a role of prime significance in the broad vertical growth and modernization process in São Paulo city in the first half of the 20th century.