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| Author(s): |
Simone Neiva Loures Gonçalves
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo (FAU/SBI) |
| Defense date: | 2010-03-26 |
| Examining board members: |
Rafael Antonio Cunha Perrone;
Wilson Edson Jorge;
Paulo César Garcez Marins;
Silvana Barbosa Rubino;
Ruth Verde Zein
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| Advisor: | Rafael Antonio Cunha Perrone |
| Abstract | |
This work consists of an in-depth investigation of the architecture of museums designed by Oscar Niemeyer from 1951 to 2006. The period studied covers essentially all phases in the architects career. The time limits are defined by the Palácio das Artes, the first museum designed by the architect, and by the Museu Nacional de Brasília, the last museum built until this date. Our goal is to understand the role of architectural program as a supporting one inside Niemeyers project methodology, from the hypothesis that, in the museums projects, his preference towards formal definition and the desire to highlight technical challenges led him to develop part of the program created, thus justifying the volumetry designed and built. The investigation made possible for us to state that Niemeyer used, for decades, in the museums he designed, a simple architectural program, and that in the museums of larger scales which he actually built the Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Niterói (1991-1996), the Museu Oscar Niemeyer (2000-2002) and the Museu Nacional de Brasília (1999-2006) he added, to that same simple program, activities that were born, fundamentally, out of formal and structural issues. (AU) | |