Lucio costa

In 1936, a team of young modernist architects — Oscar Niemeyer, Affonso Reidy, Jorge Moreira, Carlos Leão, and Ernani Vasconcelos — under the coordination of Lúcio Costa and the guidance of Le Corbusier, was tasked with creating a national architectural identity for what would become one of Brazil’s most iconic buildings: the Capanema Palace.With its pilotis, free façade, ribbon windows, roof garden, and clean lines, the building embodies modernist principles adapted to Rio de Janeiro’s tropical context. More than 80 years later, a new team of architects and lighting designers — Gabriel Vinagre, Débora Bello and Christina Draeger — was entrusted with designing the lighting for... More