Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

This document is a technical description of the architectural solution put into effect by the implementation team working on the Ministério da Educação e Saúde (MES) project designed by Lucio Costa, Oscar Niemeyer, Affonso [...]

In this text, Oscar Niemeyer responds to criticisms that consider his architectural projects “formalist.” He clarifies that, in his view, architecture must enjoy almost boundless visual freedom in its creative content if it is to be a work of art [...]

In this text, Oscar Niemeyer comments on the discomfort and misgivings that many people in the world of architecture feel in response to modern Brazilian architecture. “The traditionalists” long to preserve the sometimes age-old popular tradition [...]

In this text, architect Oscar Niemeyer provides an overview of his career; he asserts that the projects he designed for Brasilia and for the Museo de Caracas represent milestones in his production. Those projects—part of a radical phase in his work [...]

In describing Brazilian architecture, architect Oscar Niemeyer looks to its Portuguese origins and to the innovative modern movement spearheaded by Ukrainian-born Brazilian architect Gregori Warchavchik and urbanist Lúcio Costa, both of whom—in [...]