8 main works of architect Oscar Niemeyer

The works of modernist architect Oscar Niemeyer (1907-2012) are known for their innovative and curvilinear shapes.

Furthermore, they have the ability to unite the architectural structure to urban planning, integrating or concrete the daily life of cities.

Niemeyer, born in Rio de Janeiro, carried out various projects in Brazil and abroad, but it was in Brasília that he produced his works of greater prominence.

1. National Congress, in Brasília

The National Congress building is more aware of the Brazilian country, the country, or the office or exercise of the non-country legislative power. For this reason, the image of this emblematic construção is constantly receiving news that deals with the politics of Brazil.

Together with Lúcio Costa, Niemeyer was chosen to carry out the project of the city that would be the new capital of the country.

Assim, elaborates a simple structure and a very sophisticated time to be the headquarters of the National Congress.

São duas iguais towers, arranged in parallel, only as many as possible to see them. There are also two domes, placed next to two prefaces, whereby one of these structures is inverted.

An architectural work can be seen for a long time and constituted for the city a monument and a symbol. His inauguration ocorreu during the government of Juscelino Kubitschek, in 1960.

2. Brasília Cathedral, in Brasília

Outra construção do Niemeyer which is also in the capital of the country and the Metropolitan Cathedral of Nossa Senhora Aparecida (Cathedral of Brasília).

Completed in 1970, a modernist style work, in which of six white columns in boomerang format are arranged in a circle and supported by several others. Among these columns, he made pieces of glass fibers, constituting enormous vitrais.

Regardless of the angle that is observed, the structure and the same view. A igreja, who is at a low level, had the capacity to shelter 4 thousand people.

An innovative work that for his cause received the architect or the Pritzker Prize, in 1988, or the world's highest architecture prize.

3. Ibirapuera, in São Paulo

Large center for leisure, sports, culture and relaxation in the city of São Paulo, or Ibirapuera Park was commissioned by Governor Lucas Nogueira Garcez, in 1951, but was inaugurated in 1954.

Or I guess it was to become a cultural framework in the capital of the state of São Paulo, or that of fate ocorreu.

There are five prédios that are interlinked through a curvilinear marquise that also integrates the green area of ​​the park.

A most notable construction of the complex is Oca, or Pavilhão de Exposições. It is a circular structure in the shape of a dome that has thirty round janelles, or that allows sunlight to illuminate its interior.

4. Copan Building, in São Paulo

Built in the center of São Paulo, on Avenida Ipiranga, or the enormous Edifício Copan, it stands out in the urban landscape of the metropolis. This is because it is a sinuous structure in wave format that contrasts with the verticality of two other previous years.

Assim, or Copan contributed to trace a little lightness and movement for two paulistanos at sight.

Made in the 1950s, or only inaugurated in 1966, due to bureaucratic and financial problems. It was entrusted to the work of Companhia Pan-Americana de Hotéis, and by isso it was initiated "Copan", which is abbreviated to nome da company.

Or an innovative project, apart from presenting a modern and undulating aesthetic character, seeks an integration with everyday life, pois na part of the earth. a marquise who was projected to be a center of commerce and culture and shelter restaurants, lojas and a cinema (where does it work, uma igreja evangelical).

5. Memorial of Latin America, in São Paulo

O Memorial da América Latina is another famous work by Oscar Niemeyer. The building is located in Barra Funda, in São Paulo, and this concept contains the contribution of anthropologist Darcy Ribeiro, Being carried out as the intention of being a space for integration, consolidation and diffusion of knowledge on the countries Latin Americans. It was inaugurated in 1989 and belongs to the Secretary of State for Culture.

O set contains these prédios dispostos in duas praças interlinked by a passarela.

These structures have the sinuous lines of Niemeyer's characteristics, but they are projected to be highlights a concrete sculpture as a hand format, where we see it in vermelho or map of America Latin. We can relate or vermelho that runs from my face to the famous literary work of Eduardo Galeano, As you saw open in Latin America.

6. Conjunto da Pampulha, in Belo Horizonte

Work carried out in the 1940s and inaugurated in 1943, or Conjunto da Pampulha was commissioned by Juscelino Kubitschek, who sought to modernize Belo Horizonte.

It consists of a lazer center with Igreja and entertainment space.

The Igreja de São Francisco de Assis, shown in an image, integrates the whole and presents a great innovation in Brazilian architecture, especially in dealing with a religious construction.

A work traced the curve as a large element, which became an architect's trademark. The idea was to reproduce in reinforced concrete the mountains of Minas Gerais, or that at the time generated certain resistance from the conservative population, accustomed to the constructions of more imposing and robust churches.

7. Contemporary Art Museum, in Niterói

O Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Niterói, also called MAC, is one of those construções impossible to pass through.

Erected not Mirante da Boa Viagem, a work with a ship format and is integrated into the sea and mountains, allowing contemplation of the beautiful landscape of Baía de Guanabara.

Inaugurated in 1966, the museum contains a large collection of contemporary works of art, being the same work-premium that became or postal card of the city.

Second Niemeyer, to explain the project:

I did not want a glass museum, plus a large exhibition room surrounded by straight walls and by a gallery that protects and allows visitors to take a break from time to time to appreciate bela sight.

8. Oscar Niemeyer Museum, in Curitiba

Some of the most unusual and used works by the famous architect and museum that take me from him. The project was inaugurated in 2002 in Curitiba, capital of Paraná, and became an icon of the city.

A work and innovative, it is about a building in the format of an old man in concrete and glass, or that justifies being recognized by the “Museu do Olho”.

It houses a large collection of works of art, being a reference outside Brazil and abroad as a cultural institution. It also contains historical documents by Oscar Niemeyer.

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