Brazil’s modernist architecture may be better known, but the country’s distinctive midcentury modern furniture is getting new international attention. Sensuous curves, tropical woods, woven ...

The great Brazilian landscape architect Roberto Burle Marx, who died in 1994 at 84, has emerged as a mute and minor star, a compelling bit player, of these Summer Games.

Of Le Corbusier's five points of modern architecture (the ribbon window, free design of the façade and ground plan, a roof garden, and pilotis), pilotis are perhaps the most used element in ...

A new atlas tracks a design movement that continues to shape architecture today. In a remarkable convergence of creative ...

The Bronx exhibition celebrates the Brazilian artist, landscape architect and conservationist in a dazzling display of his garden style The show opened June 8 and runs through Sept. 29 ...

A modern-style, one-story house in the Estate Section — distinguished by natural materials, ... Palm Beach: Brazilian architect wins Schuler Award for Glazers’ modern-style house.

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – Oscar Niemeyer, a towering patriarch of modern architecture who shaped the look of contemporary Brazil and whose inventive, curved designs left their mark on cities ...

Lara and his collaborator, Mexican architect Luis Carranza, wrote a lauded book about modern Latin American architecture in 2014 — the first ever comprehensive survey of the field. To complement their ...

As the World Cup grips the planet all eyes are on Brazil. But it’s not all about football. A new book by Dominic Bradbury on Brazilian architecture shows them to be world leaders in this field too ...

Brazil Builds was the title of the Museum of Modern Art's famous 1944 exhibition on Brazilian modern architecture, a show that offered a promising design panorama at a dangerous moment in world ...

arts entertainment Architecture. New books tell the history of modern architecture Mark Lamster on recent monographs on Mies van der Rohe, Paulo Mendes da Rocha and Architecture Research Office.