In November 2022, Augusta Park celebrated its first anniversary of reopening to the public. The park reached maximum capacity on its opening day and, today, has welcomed over 1.5 million visitors. The site went through a long journey before reaching consolidation. The nearly 50-year struggle for the park deserves to be highlighted, and public participation in its creation must be recorded and shared so it can inspire new campaigns for public spaces across the city.
The first building erected on the site was the Uchoa Mansion (Palacete Uchoa), designed in 1902 by Victor Dubugras. In 1906, it began operating as the traditional Des Oiseaux School (Colégio Des Oiseaux). Later, in 1908, construction began on the school's new annex, designed by architect-engineer Maximiliam Hehl and completed in 1917. The Santa Mônica School for underprivileged boys and girls, built around 1910, and the Sedes Sapientiae Higher Institute of Philosophy, Sciences, and Letters, designed by Rino Levi and built in 1941, also occupied the site. Later, in 1946, the Institute was incorporated into the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (PUC) and, in 1971, its section of the lot was subdivided from the plot known today as Augusta Park.
