Floor Plan Oscar Niemeyer House

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Floor plan oscar niemeyer house.

Das canoas house oscar niemeyer. Oscar niemeyer designed the das canoas house in 1951 as family home. The glazing meets the roof with a minimal frame and combined with sliding floor to ceiling glazed walls niemeyer has created an illusion where outdoors and indoors are indiscernable landscape and architecture are one. Oscar niemeyer s only us house is on the market.

Designed by oscar niemeyer in the shape of the tilde above the a in são paulo the copan celebrated its 50th birthday last year with middle age starting to take its toll. 3 august 2015 by brian vermeulen. Project name das canoas house location rio de janeiro brazil client owner oscar niemeyer project types single family year completed 1951 shared by august king project status built by. Specialists in art history see the design as a blend of modern architecture and authoritative self creation a blend which flourished in europe and the united states more than in south.

Here niemeyer has designed the rooms to be refuges with small windows revealing only a tiny part of the luxuriant growth outside. The most interesting feature is the fusion of organic architecture and minimalist architecture. As it is an obvious tribute to the farnsworth house das canoas puts geometric regularity in crisis but does not alter the formal purity. Brazilian modernist architect oscar niemeyer built only one residential home in the united states and he did it all by snail mail.

Oscar niemeyer s only us house is on the market. Das canoas house now is open to the public offering visitors a permanent exhibition on oscar niemeyer. Brian vermeulen on oscar niemeyer s canoas house. The house is considered amongst the most significant designs of modern architecture to exist in south america s largest nation brazil.