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Subject(s)

• Niemeyer, Oscar 1907-2012—Criticism and interpretation [Browse]
• International style (Architecture)—Brazil [Browse]

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (p. 387-399) and index.

Contents

• Introduction : 'Much more than parrots and banana trees'
• Modernism and national identity in Brazil or how to brew a Brazilian stew
• Oscar Niemeyer and the birth of Brazilian architectural modernism
• Curves of transgression: the architectural complex of Pampulha
• Challenging established hierarchies in the post-war Brazilian metropolis
• Dwelling in the 'new world in the tropics'
• Brasília: the president's plantation or the second colonization of Brazil
• Anagrams of monumentality: inversion, levitation, hybridization, dissonance
• Pau-Brasil architecture for export
• Reclaiming the right to the beach.

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ISBN

• 9780300120387 (cl : alk. paper)
• 0300120389 (cl : alk. paper)

LCCN

2008019024

OCLC

179832015

Other standard number

40015759168

RCP

C - S

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