http://www.paper-cloud.net/archive/categories/on-the-waterfront/ Recent content in On The Waterfront on Paper-cloud - Gerbert's archive of writings Hugo -- gohugo.io en Gerbert Verheij Sun, 01 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.paper-cloud.net/archive/post/2012-monumentalidade-espaco-publico-lourenco-marques/ Sun, 01 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.paper-cloud.net/archive/post/2012-monumentalidade-espaco-publico-lourenco-marques/ <p>Article-lenght summary of my master thesis, published in <em>On the w@terfront</em> 20 (January 2012), <a href="http://www.raco.cat/index.php/Waterfront/issue/view/18635">http://www.raco.cat/index.php/Waterfront/issue/view/18635</a>.</p> <p><strong>Abstract</strong>: Lourenço Marques, actual Maputo (Mozambique), is subjected to a series of aesthetic interventions in its public space during the 1930s e 1940s. These seek to &ldquo;monumentalize&rdquo; and &ldquo;portugalize&rdquo; the city, responding to its recently acquired status as capital of the Colony. Two monuments appear as especially important and exemplary: the <em>Padrão de Guerra</em>, a lately built First War memorial (1935), and the monument to the hero of the &ldquo;pacification campaigns&rdquo; of the 1890s, Mouzinho de Albuquerque (1940).</p>