Rodin Museum

The Rodin Museum in the city of Salvador, Bahia State, was designed by Francisco Fanucci and Marcelo Carvalho Ferraz, and inaugurated on 2006. Rodin masterpieces will be displayed at the main historic renovated building - the Palace Comendador Catharino - and in the gardens. A contemporary addition was built to display temporary exhibits, and it connects to the main building through a bridge overlooking the garden. The integration of the two buildings - that are one century apart in age - and with its gardens express the Brazilian attitude of integration and tolerance. The Museum also serves as a place for gathering, and the exchange of arts and culture.

Photos by Nelson Kon.

Club Nox

This is a nightclub called "Club Nox", located in the city of Recife, Pernambuco State. Designed by Metro Arquitetura + Juliano Dubeux.

Cidade Nova Building

Rio de Janeiro has its first LEED certified project! It's the first Core & Shell certified building in Brazil and Latin America, and the second one outside the United States. The 52,000 m2 building was developed by Bracor, and it's home to Petrobras, the Brazilian Oil Company.

Masp (Sao Paulo's Museum of Art) by Lina Bo Bardi

Imperial Museum

Imperial Museum, where the Portuguese Royal Family lived after moving to Brazil. It's located in the city of Petropolis, Rio de Janeiro State.

by Sebastiao Salgado

Brasilia

"Brasilia, aerial and highway capital, a garden city; the Patriarch's century-old dream." - Lucio Costa.

Tarsila do Amaral - painter

This painting is called "Abaporu", and it is one of the most important paintings made in Brazil. Tarsila painted this in 1928 as a gift to her husband, writer Oswald de Andrade. She named the work "Abaporu", which means, "the man who eats" in tupi-guarani (Brazilian native indian language). After that, Oswald wrote the "Antropophagy Manifesto", and they created the "Antropophagic Movement" in the Brazilian Arts. This Movement was of crucial importance, and its intention was to "eat" and "digest" the european culture and produce Brazilian art related to Brazilian reality and themes.

"The Moon"

"Post Card"

"Anthropophagy"

"Workers"