In this account, Cavalcanti describes most of the significant elements of the building : an extraordinary site, high up above the city in th...

The erotic programme described by Pampulha became part of fashionable architectural taste. In the private realm, Brazil ’s wealthy commissio...

The erotic potential of the Casino is reiterated in the much smaller Casa do Baile, a kind of outdoor nightclub. It takes up, in simplified ...

The Pampulha hotel is also, unquestionably, a space organized primarily for pleasure. The curves alone suggest organic, bodily forms, but t...

Inside Brazil , the erotic potential of Modernism is manifest on a grand scale at Pampulha (1940–42), Niemeyer’s first major solo commission...

The first large-scale exercise of this erotically charged Modernist architecture materialized outside Brazil , however, in the form of the B...