The Consulate General of Brazil in New York will hold a lecture by NYU professor Rafael Urano Frajndlich about the Brazilian pavilion at the 1939 World Fair in New York, organized by Oscar Niemeyer and Lúcio Costa, and its impacts on Brazilian Modernist Architecture.
Lúcio Costa and Oscar Niemeyer brought the lines of Brazilian architecture to New York in 1939. The lecture shows how the reception of the pavilion in New York was crucial for the consolidation of Brazilian Modern Architecture as an important transnational movement.
The lecture will begin by presenting the context of the Pavilion: the tradition of Brazil’s participation in world exhibitions and the emergence of modern architecture in the country in the 1930s. It will then address the Pavilion, its architecture, its exhibition content, and the process of its creation and occupation. Finally, it will discuss its impact on the city of New York, the attention its architects received from the specialized media, and how the building was fundamental in driving the Museum of Modern Art in New York (MoMA) to engage in an initiative to exclusively showcase Brazilian architecture, which was definitive in the history of modernism in the country.
Date and time: Thursday, February 15 · 6 PM – 8 PM EST
Location: Consulate General of Brazil in New York
225 East 41st Street New York, NY 10017