How Brasilia made me the attractive side of modern architecture
How Brasilia made me the attractive side of modern architecture
How Brasilia made me the attractive side of modern architecture
Some couples Spend the holidays on the beaches. My husband and I joined in trips to often arid areas, visiting works of architects mostly dead.
When we were engaged in Rio de Janeiro 17 years ago, we promised to visit Brasilia one day, some 700 miles away, the planned metropolis that became the new capital of the nation in 1960. Champion in 1955 for the democratically elected president, Juscelino Kubitschek, and conceived by the urbanist En Lúcio Costa, with his Brazilian compatriot and architect Oscar Niemeyer (1907-2012), the city had the intention of embodying optimism, progress and civic engagement. When it was inaugurated five years later, its modernist structures changed all notions of functional architecture. "I feel like I've just landed on another planet, not on Earth," said Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin when he first saw Brasilia.
In the decades since our commitment, my husband and I renovated four apartments, each one more modernist than the last, but never to our complete satisfaction: Poul Kjaerholm leather chairs look too masculine, guests can be injured at many angles straight. We decided it was time to visit Brasilia.
When we headed from the airport, a horizon flooded with white emerged from the red savannah. Within the city of 2.5 million inhabitants, the cascades flowed from cantilevered concrete channels in front of the facade of the Palace of Justice. The twin stone towers, clearly related to the United Nations Secretariat in New York, of which Niemeyer was a principal architect, rose behind the horizontal main building of the National Congress. The presidential palace of Planalto seemed to slide over a moat, with its flat roof supported by structural beams that, in Niemeyer's eyes, imitated the feathers that fell.
The Palace of the National Congress of Niemeyer has become a symbol of Brazil.
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Nearby, 16 dark white paraboloid beams supported the Metropolitan Cathedral of Brasilia as a crown of thorns. Inside, sculpted angels hung from the apex of the roof, and indigo light flooded the house of worship as it filtered through windows with blue and green wave patterns. Niemeyer once wrote: "I am attracted to the sensual curves that flow freely ... I find in the mountains of my country, in the sinuosity of its rivers, in the waves of the ocean and in the body of the beloved woman". Under those arches, I understood that faithful modernism can include color and curves, and I made a mental note: Get some pillows.
The sense of the post-war possibility of Brasilia still prevails in the planned city. I found myself literally jumping along the Monumental Axis. "There is an irony in these palaces," said Patricio del Real, assistant professor of art and architecture at Harvard University. "They express an anti-monumentality that makes us question the need for heaviness and great statements in civic settings."
Maybe I need more than pillows. I have been overcome (or eliminated) many times when considering the purchase of the Rio Modern Chaise (shown below). And other furniture For Niemeyer and contemporaries like Sergio Rodrigues, Joaquim Tenreiro and Lina Bo Bardi continue to rise in value. But the newest designers offer new shots on the aesthetics of Brasilia. The side table of the W8 that has just been launched by Alain Gilles for Ligne Roset makes a nod to Niemeyer. "The weight of stone at the base has a concave shape that can be found in buildings like the National Congress," said Mr. Gilles, while the metal curve holding the tablet recalls the Planalto Palace.
Since we returned, my husband and I have softened our overly disciplined apartment. Any day, now, will come a sensual orange sofa by Vladimir Kagan Serpentine. The pillows that I promised to buy cheered up the children's sofa. A new sense of lightness warms our house. "It's not enough to be rational," Niemeyer wrote. "It must also be beautiful."
CURVES NEXT / Non-linear designs to round the decoration
In a clockwise direction, from the top left: Reflect Pillow, $ 80, cb2.com; Alain Gilles W8 Occasional table, $ 850, Ligne Roset, 212-357-1036; Gert-Jen Soepenberg Vase # 1, $ 214, ateliergertjan.com; Candelero Corona Global Views, $ 199, perigold.com; Oscar Niemeyer Rio Modern Chaise, $ 27,410, 1stdibs.com
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