Memorial for the Indigenous Peoples
Niemeyer, Oscar
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Alternative Title
Memorial dos Povos Indigenas
Date
1982Description
General view of the Memorial for the Indigenous Peoples, from west; In the 1980s Niemeyer designed at least two more buildings in Brasilia, small ones, the Memorial dos Povos Indigenas ("Memorial for the Indigenous People") and the tent-like Catedral Militar, Igreja de N.S. da Paz. Both are located west of the television tower (most of the principal government buildings are east of it). Niemeyer built the memorial in 1982 as a museum of indigenous art, but it was first used for modern exhibits, and restored to its intended use only in 1999. A curving walkway leads up to a rounded white building. The interior gallery is in the shape a of large circle, glass on the inside of which leads to an open, circular courtyard; an organically shaped, curving concrete canopy above it covers only a small part of the sky. Source: Wikipedia; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page (accessed 7/13/2010)
Type of Work
memorial; art museumSubject
architecture, contemporary (1960 to present), Art museums, Native Americans, Twentieth century, Modernist
Rights
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