Museum of Modern Art in Caracas
The Museum of Modern Art in Caracas (Spanish: Museo de Arte Moderno de Caracas) was a proposed art museum in Caracas, Venezuela. It was designed in the form of an inverted pyramid, and proposed to be placed on a cliff in the neighborhood of Colinas de Bello Monte high above the Central Zone of Caracas. The proposed structure would be entirely opaque without a visual connection to its surroundings from the interior; natural light would only enter the building via a glass ceiling.
Museum of Modern Art in Caracas
Photographer unspecified in publication. · PAPADAKI S., 1956. Oscar Niemeyer: Works in Progress. Reinhold Publishing · Public domain
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The Museum of Modern Art in Caracas (Spanish: Museo de Arte Moderno de Caracas) was a proposed art museum in Caracas, Venezuela. It was designed in the form of an inverted pyramid, and proposed to be placed on a cliff in the neighborhood of Colinas de Bello Monte high above the Central Zone of Caracas. The proposed structure would be entirely opaque without a visual connection to its surroundings from the interior; natural light would only enter the building via a glass ceiling.
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It was designed between 1954 and 1955 by Oscar Niemeyer and never realized.
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• Name — Museum of Modern Art in Caracas • Native Name — Museo de Arte Moderno de Caracas • Status — Never completed • Architectural Style — Modernist • Location City — Caracas • Location Country — Venezuela • Floor Count — 4 • Architect — Oscar Niemeyer
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- 1.Albizu, Azier. Venezuela y el problema de su identidad arquitectónica. Universidad Central de Venezuela, Facultad de Arquitectura y Urbanismo, Consejo de Desarrollo Científico y Humanístico. 620. 2007. 9789800024300.
- 2.Barrios, Carola. Forma Transcrições arquitetônicas: Niemeyer e Villanueva em diálogo museal. Arquitexts. 13. 151. 2012.
- 3.Underwood, David. Oscar Niemeyer and the Architecture of Brazil. Rizzoli. 95–98. 1994. 0847816869.
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