Oscar Niemeyer: dialogues with the natural

Abstract

The modern architecture of Brazil is incorporating several concepts of the European Modern Movement from the end of the thirties, but, as Alberto Sartoris writes, without doing it directly: but reinterpreting them, translating them and adapting them to the specific climatic and landscape conditions of the Country. (SARTORIS, 2005)
The text describes the appropriation of the new theories from the analysis of some model projects in which the concatenation between spatiality, natural landscape and landscaping appears forceful.
The works, carried out by multidisciplinary teams guided by maestro Niemeyer, demonstrate how the new Brazilian spatiality arises from the fusion between architectural, artistic, natural and structural elements, with the use of similar morphological rules in the different aspects of the projects, as it happens for example in the Pampulha church, where architect, artist, engineer and landscaper - Oscar Niemeyer, Candido Portinari, Joaquim Cardoso and Roberto Burle Marx - operate in communion applying aesthetic criteria of a similar nature.
The Brazilian revolution is the assimilation of a work method that is based on the dialogue between masters of different knowledge, in which the architect has the important role of "orchestrator" (LE CORBUSIER, 1995) and as an objective the holistic construction of a New modern, tropical and integrated landscape.