The architecture of Brazil is influenced by Europe, especially Portugal. It has a history that goes back 500 years to the time when Pedro Cabral arrived...
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The colonial architecture of Brazil is defined as the architecture carried out in the current Brazilian territory from 1500, the year of the Portuguese...
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Brazil, officially the Federative Republic of Brazil, is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth-largest country by area and the...
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Architecture is the art and technique of designing and building, as distinguished from the skills associated with construction. It is both the process...
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Colonial architecture is a hybrid architectural style that arose as colonists combined architectural styles from their country of origin with design characteristics...
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history of Brazil Military history of Brazil Culture of Brazil Architecture of Brazil Architecture schools in Brazil Cuisine of Brazil Languages of Brazil National...
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Portugal). Many former colonies, especially Brazil, Macau, and India, promote their Portuguese architecture as major tourist attractions and many are UNESCO...
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is a house building style from the Portuguese colonial era, typical in Brazil and other former Portuguese colonies. It is a form equivalent to the Anglo-American...
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Architecture of Brazil Architecture of Chile Architecture of Colombia Architecture of Panama Architecture of Paraguay Architecture of Peru Architecture of Trinidad...
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Portuguese architecture refers to both the architecture of Portugal's modern-day territory in Continental Portugal, the Azores and Madeira, as well as...
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Mid-century modern (redirect from Mid-century architecture)
design, graphic design, architecture and urban development that was present in all the world, but more popular in North America, Brazil and Europe from roughly...
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With a history of over two centuries, the architecture of Porto Alegre, the capital of Rio Grande do Sul, in Brazil, is a mosaic of ancient and modern...
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List of architecture schools in Brazil at colleges and universities and according to the Five Regions in the country: Panongu Universidade Federal de...
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Oscar Niemeyer (category Recipients of the Great Cross of the National Order of Scientific Merit (Brazil))
development of modern architecture. Niemeyer was best known for his design of civic buildings for Brasília, a planned city that became Brazil's capital in 1960...
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Smith notes, Brazil did not have the same extent of indigenous influence on architecture as other Latin American countries. Instead Brazilian colonial architecture...
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legislative body of Brazil's federal government. Unlike the state legislative assemblies and municipal chambers, the Congress is bicameral, composed of the Federal...
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The Empire of Brazil was a 19th-century state that broadly comprised the territories which form modern Brazil and Uruguay until the latter achieved independence...
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arrival of the Europeans, the lands that now constitute Brazil were occupied, fought over and settled by diverse tribes. Thus, the history of Brazil begins...
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context. Brazil has a large size of the territory, lacks government support, has tropical environments, lacks of monumental architecture, and Brazil's being...
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Ouro Preto (redirect from Historic Town of Ouro Preto)
[ˈvilɐ ˈʁikɐ], lit. 'Rich Village'), is a municipality in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil. The city, a former colonial mining town located in the Serra do...
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The culture of Brazil has been shaped by the amalgamation of diverse indigenous cultures, and the cultural fusion that took place among Indigenous communities...
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The International Architecture Biennale of São Paulo (Portuguese: Bienal Internacional de Arquitetura de São Paulo, BIA), Brazil, is an international exhibition...
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important artistic testimonies began to appear in Brazil, almost exclusively in the field of sacred architecture and its internal decoration, Mannerism was already...
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an architecture and design school in the University of São Paulo in Brazil. It was founded in 1948 by a group of teachers from Polytechnic School of the...
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of Our Lady of the Pillar (Brazilian Portuguese: Basílica Menor Nossa Senhora do Pilar) in Ouro Preto, Minas Gerais, popularly called the Our Lady of...
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of the earlier styles is still significant as good number of structures are modified designs of Brazilian type and colonial neoclassical architecture...
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The architecture of the United States demonstrates a broad variety of architectural styles and built forms over the country's history of over two centuries...
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Colonial Brazil (Portuguese: Brasil Colonial), sometimes referred to as Portuguese America, comprises the period from 1500, with the arrival of the Portuguese...
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identification of them is made. Brazil portal Catholic portal Colonial architecture of Brazil Baroque architecture Rococo architecture Baroque in Brazil IPHAN...
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Roberto Burle Marx (category Brazilian people of German-Jewish descent)
world-famous. He is credited with having introduced modernist landscape architecture to Brazil. He was known as a modern nature artist and a public urban space...
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