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    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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    Brazil, officially the Federative Republic of Brazil, is the largest and easternmost country in South America. It is the world's fifth-largest country...
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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    [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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  • 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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    Gustavo Capanema Palace (category Modernist architecture in Brazil)
    also known architecturally as the Ministry of Education and Health Building, is a government office building in downtown Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. As the first...
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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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    (part of the Maghreb). Scholarly references on Islamic architecture often refer to this architectural tradition in terms such as architecture of the Islamic...
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    simply Catedral de Maringá Cathedral of Maringá) is a Roman Catholic cathedral located in downtown Maringá, Paraná, Brazil, reaching 124 metres (407 ft) in...
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    Modernism in Brazil was a broad cultural movement that strongly affected the art scene and Brazilian society in the first half of the 20th century, especially...
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    The national flag of Brazil is a blue disc depicting a starry sky (which includes the Southern Cross) spanned by a curved band inscribed with the national...
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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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  • This is a timeline of architecture, indexing the individual year in architecture pages. Notable events in architecture and related disciplines including...
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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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    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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