DAS CASAS DE CÂMARA E CADEIA AO LEAL SENADO DE MACAU : UM PERCURSO DE RECIPROCIDADES澳門市政廳大樓與監房的關聯性研究

The article analyzes the relationship between the municipal ensemble of Macau — from the Council Houses and the Prison to the Leal Senado space — proposing a historical-spatial trajectory of reciprocities between administration, justice, and representation of power. The author argues that, as in the...

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Published in:Review of Culture
Main Author: Maria José de Freitas
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Published: Instituto Cultural de Macau 2015
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description The article analyzes the relationship between the municipal ensemble of Macau — from the Council Houses and the Prison to the Leal Senado space — proposing a historical-spatial trajectory of reciprocities between administration, justice, and representation of power. The author argues that, as in the late-medieval and Renaissance Portuguese model, the council palace articulated governmental functions with urban devices of visibility, in which arcades, balconies, emblems, and proximity to the square operated as a political technology of "seeing and being seen." Methodologically, the text combines a historical framing of the urbanism and architecture of power with a typological and comparative reading of constructive solutions associated with municipal centrality, mobilizing metropolitan examples and references to adaptations in overseas contexts. The analysis concludes that, in Macau, the continuity and transformation of these elements produced an "image of power" compatible with the local ordering, integrating the prison and the civic-administrative space into the same system of social affirmation and territorial control. Thus, the Leal Senado emerges as a stage of consolidation of a reciprocal logic between jurisdiction and urban prestige, in which architecture materializes compromises between municipal autonomy and central authority.
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spelling DAS CASAS DE CÂMARA E CADEIA AO LEAL SENADO DE MACAU : UM PERCURSO DE RECIPROCIDADES澳門市政廳大樓與監房的關聯性研究
The article analyzes the relationship between the municipal ensemble of Macau — from the Council Houses and the Prison to the Leal Senado space — proposing a historical-spatial trajectory of reciprocities between administration, justice, and representation of power. The author argues that, as in the late-medieval and Renaissance Portuguese model, the council palace articulated governmental functions with urban devices of visibility, in which arcades, balconies, emblems, and proximity to the square operated as a political technology of "seeing and being seen." Methodologically, the text combines a historical framing of the urbanism and architecture of power with a typological and comparative reading of constructive solutions associated with municipal centrality, mobilizing metropolitan examples and references to adaptations in overseas contexts. The analysis concludes that, in Macau, the continuity and transformation of these elements produced an "image of power" compatible with the local ordering, integrating the prison and the civic-administrative space into the same system of social affirmation and territorial control. Thus, the Leal Senado emerges as a stage of consolidation of a reciprocal logic between jurisdiction and urban prestige, in which architecture materializes compromises between municipal autonomy and central authority.
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Macau
Review of Culture
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2015
Maria José de Freitas
spellingShingle DAS CASAS DE CÂMARA E CADEIA AO LEAL SENADO DE MACAU : UM PERCURSO DE RECIPROCIDADES澳門市政廳大樓與監房的關聯性研究
Maria José de Freitas
title DAS CASAS DE CÂMARA E CADEIA AO LEAL SENADO DE MACAU : UM PERCURSO DE RECIPROCIDADES澳門市政廳大樓與監房的關聯性研究
title_autocomplete DAS CASAS DE CÂMARA E CADEIA AO LEAL SENADO DE MACAU : UM PERCURSO DE RECIPROCIDADES澳門市政廳大樓與監房的關聯性研究
title_full DAS CASAS DE CÂMARA E CADEIA AO LEAL SENADO DE MACAU : UM PERCURSO DE RECIPROCIDADES澳門市政廳大樓與監房的關聯性研究
title_fullStr DAS CASAS DE CÂMARA E CADEIA AO LEAL SENADO DE MACAU : UM PERCURSO DE RECIPROCIDADES澳門市政廳大樓與監房的關聯性研究
title_full_unstemmed DAS CASAS DE CÂMARA E CADEIA AO LEAL SENADO DE MACAU : UM PERCURSO DE RECIPROCIDADES澳門市政廳大樓與監房的關聯性研究
title_short DAS CASAS DE CÂMARA E CADEIA AO LEAL SENADO DE MACAU : UM PERCURSO DE RECIPROCIDADES澳門市政廳大樓與監房的關聯性研究
title_sort das casas de câmara e cadeia ao leal senado de macau : um percurso de reciprocidades澳門市政廳大樓與監房的關聯性研究
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