An constructive clan?

Ramos de Azevedo, Arnaldo Dumont Villares and Ernesto Dias de Castro

Abstract

This article presents an initial discussion about a family group that was involved in the direction of two key companies for the consolidation of civil construction and urbanization in São Paulo. In a period of dizzying growth of works mirrored by the city, an office of architecture aligned with a shop for import and trade of building materials, were responsible for boosting public and private works inserted within the logic of a booming real estate market. Represented by three engineers, Ramos de Azevedo, Arnaldo Villares and Ernesto de Castro, his undertakings are based on the idea of a clan that was effectively directed at maintaining its structures for decades.