Floor Plan Oscar Niemeyer House

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.

Floor plan oscar niemeyer house.

Beside the pool are sculptures by niemeyer s friend alfredo ceschiatti whose elegantly curved female bodies fit perfectly into the context of fluctuating forms. 3 august 2015 by brian vermeulen. Oscar niemeyer designed the das canoas house in 1951 as family home. Brazilian modernist architect oscar niemeyer built only one residential home in the united states and he did it all by snail mail.

Das canoas house now is open to the public offering visitors a permanent exhibition on oscar niemeyer. Das canoas house oscar niemeyer. View all images 13 project details. 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.

As it is an obvious tribute to the farnsworth house das canoas puts geometric regularity in crisis but does not alter the formal purity. 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. But the relationship between house and landscape changes if we go into the bedrooms. 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. Oscar niemeyer s only us house is on the market. The 5 153 square feet of living space holds five bedrooms and six bathrooms in a t shape floor plan. Brian vermeulen on oscar niemeyer s canoas house.