The house Afrânio do Amaral

Abstract

This article discusses the construction of the residence of the then director of the Butantan Institute, the scientist Afrânio do Amaral, erected between 1930 and 1931. It seeks to explain the reasons for which it was erected in relation to the cultural and architectural aspects in force at the time and its political and institutional implications in the historical context that was in force in the early 1930s in São Paulo. We will seek to identify the various reasons that motivated its construction, as well as seek to point out its artistic roots in the light of the documentation available at the Butantan Institute Documentation Center and compare them with the characters involved, their familiar implications, available bibliography and investigations relating to the passage of Afrânio by US institutions.