Milton Monte’s architectural production: connection with the Amazonian place

Abstract

Architectural theory has highlighted the notion of place as part of the design process, being an important key to architectural intervention. The production of some architects in the Amazon, such as Milton Monte, Severiano Porto and Oswaldo Bratke, is a reference that demonstrates a strong connection and respect for the place. Therefore, the architecture produced by Milton Monte is investigated, contextualizing it with the productions of the other mentioned architects, in order to identify how architecture responds to the Amazonian peculiarities when carried out by a native architect. It was noticed that those three architects understood the need to adapt their designs to the bioclimatic and cultural aspects, but Milton Monte went further: he used the region's vernacular reference as an analog source. In this sense, it is expected that such architectural practices can serve as subsidies and objects of study to support architects working in the Amazon in the incorporation, in their design processes, of concepts, discussions and analogical processes that do not ignore the connection between design and place.