The Consulate General of Brazil in New York will hold a lecture by NYU professor Rafael Urano Frajndlich about the Brazilian exhibit in the 1939 World Fair in New York, organized by Oscar Niemeyer and Lúcio Costa, and its impacts on Brazilian Modernist Architecture.
Lucio Costa and Oscar Niemeyer brought the lines of Brazilian architecture to New York in 1939. The talk shows how the pavilion’s reception in New York was crucial for the consolidation of Brazilian Modern Architecture as an important transnational movement.
The lecture would start presenting the background of the Pavilion: the tradition of Brazil’s participation in world exhibitions and the emergence of modern architecture in the country in the 1930s. Then, it would address the Pavilion, its architecture, its exhibition content, and the process of its creation and occupation. Finally, it would discuss its impact on New York City, the attention its architects received from the specialized media, and how the building was instrumental in prompting 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 – 8pm EST
Location: Consulate General of Brazil in New York
225 East 41st Street New York, NY 10017