ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the social structure of rubber settlements from Western Brazilian Amazon Basin, during the period from 1870 to 1910. The Spatial Anastylosis was proposed as a methodology, devised to analyze fragments of the iconography associated with literary and historiographical registers. The use of different iconographic sources allowed the reconstruction of spatial relations between buildings in a settlement and the territory afterward described by space syntax measurement. Anastylosis is one of the techniques used by architects and restorers and consists of (re)elaborating the object from fragmented artifacts. The Anastylosis was proved to be very effective in (re)construct and understand how the social structures are organized and reflected in the architecture of rubber settlements. By analyzing the maps produced through anastylosis, we identified the patio as the core around where the social and topological relations between the espacos edificados and espacos abertos are arranged.
