The article studies the architectural country side of the city of Campinas, a legacy of two economic cycles: the sugar cane and coffee industries at the end of the 18th century and during the 19th century. It analyses the historic documentation and files found in the Centro de Memória Unicamp. It is about the buildings and their construction, the different forms of negotiating and the multiple programs necessary to the growing and housing sectors (during the coffee cycle, the disposition of the buildings determined by the flowing of the operations and needs related to the seed betterment). The article also gives emphasis to technological details of the buildings, revealing preference for traditional methods and materials used in the architectural culture in São Paulo state. This particularity is shown by the domain of mud huts until the advent of railroad in 1870.
Architecture; Mills; Plantation ranch; 18th Century; 19th Century; Campinas
