{"id":102150,"date":"2015-03-25T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-25T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/interiordesign.net\/designwire\/moma-proves-latin-american-architecture-is-more-th\/"},"modified":"2022-12-09T14:06:48","modified_gmt":"2022-12-09T19:06:48","slug":"moma-proves-latin-american-architecture-is-more-th","status":"publish","type":"id_news","link":"https:\/\/interiordesign.net\/designwire\/moma-proves-latin-american-architecture-is-more-th\/","title":{"rendered":"MoMA Proves Latin American Architecture is More Than Oscar Niemeyer"},"content":{"rendered":"


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\n Eladio Dieste. Church in Atlantida, Uruguay, 1958. Photo by Leonardo Finotti.
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To much of the world, Oscar Niemeyer looms large as the father of modern architecture in Latin America. But as a new exhibit at the
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\n in New York reveals, his was just one voice in a glorious chorus of incredibly imaginative\u2014but little-known outside the Southern hemisphere\u2014designers who transformed Central and South America beginning in the middle of the last century.\n <\/p>\n

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\n “Latin America in Construction: Architecture 1955-1980” is a triumph. Sixty years after MoMA\u2019s first exhibit on the topic, the current exhibit is a \u201chistorical investigation with the advantage of hindsight,\u201d says its curator, Barry Bergdoll. \u201cWhile the earlier show looked at common threads, this one celebrates diversity and the region\u2019s radical originality.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

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\n Juan Sordo Madaleno. Edificio Palmas 555, Mexico City, Mexico 1975. Photo by Guillermo Zamora.
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Archival drawings by L\u00facio Costa of his iconic master plan for Brasilia\u2014for which Niemeyer designed his most notable buildings\u2014are juxtaposed with Rino Levi\u2019s alternate designs for the new capital city of South America\u2019s largest country. Levi\u2019s sketches for ultra-slim slab buildings, while not enough to win the 1956 open competition, were way ahead of their time.\n <\/p>\n

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\n Also featured in the exhibit, a 1961 competition for the Edificio Peugeot in Buenos Aires proves incredibly prescient as well. Though never realized, design entries for the 60-story skyscraper show twisting and morphing forms and complex facades that anticipate the digital designs of today.\n <\/p>\n

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\n Clorindo Testa. Bank of London and South America, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1959-1966. Photo by Archivo Manuel Gomez Pi\u00f1eiro\/Fabio Grementieri.
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The dark first room of the exhibition is what Bergdoll calls a \u201cprelude.\u201d Featuring seven large screens showing old films of seven cities\u2014Buenos Aires, Montevideo, Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Caracas, Havana, and Mexico City\u2014modernizing, it is \u201cmeant to inform but also seduce,\u201d he says, bringing visitors to the more technical galleries. But little persuasion is needed. The rooms that follow, covering everything from housing and urban planning to university and utopian projects, are laden with stunning large-scale architectural models (built by students in Chile) and sumptuous drawings.\n <\/p>\n

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\n runs through July 19. And thanks to the museum’s partnership with Instagram, s
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\n Rogelio Salmona and Hern\u00e1n Vieco. Social Housing Complex in San Cristobal, Bogot\u00e1, Colombia, 1963-1966. Photo by Paolo Gasparini\/Fundaci\u00f3n Rogelio Salmona.
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