Ibirapuera Park Project, São Paulo, Brazil (Perspective)

Roberto Burle Marx

Oscar Niemeyer

1953

A gouache-on-board architectural perspective by Oscar Niemeyer proposing a modernist civic complex for Ibirapuera Park, using sweeping roofs and arranged plaza blocks to show how the site might be experienced.

Seen from above, the composition strikes with its long cantilevered rectilinear building and a dramatic arched pavilion set over a vivid, geometric patchwork of colored plazas, tiny figures and palm groves giving a clear sense of scale.

This 1953 rendering exemplifies Niemeyer’s contribution to Brazilian modernism—melding sculptural concrete forms, urban planning, and theatrical public space—and helped shape international ideas about how modern architecture could create civic identity.

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Art Terms

Gouache Architecture Architectural drawing Perspective Modern art Landscape Urbanization

Exhibitions

Latin American Architecture Since 1945

1955

Brazil Builds

1943

From Le Corbusier to Niemeyer: 1929–1949

1949

Painting and Sculpture in Architecture

1949