Brazilian architecture: Brasilia, São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro

This trip is designed for architects, students of architecture or anyone who wants to discover the brazilian architecture. The trip is organized around 3 major Brazilian cities, Brasilia, São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, where you can appreciate the diversity of brazilian architecture. From the arid capital, Brasilia, a city planned from scratch to São Paulo, one of the most important megalopolis of the contemporary world, passing through the exuberance of the nature of Rio de Janeiro, we intend to build a broad vision of Brazil, contemplating architectural, anthropological, historical, artistic and natural aspects.

DAY 1 – BRASILIA (Flight)​

Arrival in Brasilia. Transfer to the accommodation. Check-in and meeting of participants. In the afternoon tour through the Monumental Axis. Visit to the communication tower, Pilot Plan (Lúcio Costa), cathedral, Itamaraty Palace and Palacio do Planalto, all of Oscar Niemeyer.
Night in Brasilia.

 DAY 2 – BRASILIA – SÃO PAULO

Breakfast. In the morning: Tour Wings and Superquadras. Las Asas and Superquadras are part of the Pilot Plan, project of the architect and urbanist Lúcio Costa, for the construction of Brasilia. Each Superquadra is composed of ten or eleven “blocks”, buildings of six floors elevated on piles leaving free the ground floor.
Check out accommodation. Transfer to the airport. Arrival in São Paulo. Transfer to accommodation and check-in.
Night in São Paulo.

 DAY 3 – SÃO PAULO ​

Breakfast and meeting of participants. Tour around Av. Paulista and surroundings, considered the new center of the city. We will see the MASP Building by Lina Bo Bardi, Fiesp by Paulo Mendes da Rocha. We will know the landscape of Burle Marx in a visit to Trianon Park. Visit to the center of São Paulo: Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil (CCBB), São Paulo Metropolitan Cathedral, Altino Arantes Building (Banespao or Banespa Tower), Martinelli Building, Patriarca Square, Municipal Theater, Praça das Artes, Galeria do Rock. We will also visit the first modernist house in the country – Casa Modernista da Rua Santa Cruz – completed in 1928 by Gregori Warchavchik.

Night in São Paulo.

DAY 4 – SÃO PAULO ​

Breakfast. Tour around the city center of different points of interest such as the Municipal Market, the Pinacoteca del Estado and Estación de la Luz. We will visit the Copan Building by Oscar Niemeyer, Edifício Itália and the Tomie Ohtake Institute. Vila Madalena.

Night in São Paulo.

DAY 5 – SÃO PAULO​

Breakfast. In the morning: Tour “Masters of the Architecture of São Paulo“: SESC Pompeia (Lina Bo Bardi), Latin American Memorial (Oscar Niemeyer), Glass House (Lina Bo Bardi), Hotel Unique (Ruy Ohtake). According to the day of the week, visit the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism of the University of São Paulo – FAU-USP (Vilanova Artigas)

Ibirapuera Park: Museum of Modern Art of São Paulo (MAM) and Afro-Brazilian Museum, OCA (Pavilhão Lucas Nogueira Garcez) and Biennial Pavilion.

Night in São Paulo.

DAY 6 – SÃO PAULO – RIO DE JANEIRO​

Breakfast. Check-out and transfer to Rio de Janeiro. Check-in at the accommodation and meeting of participants.
In the afternoon: Urban architecture tour – panoramic tour to understand the urban environment, the neighborhoods and the natural and geographical aspects that limit and impose the landscape of the city. Ipanema and Leblon.

Night in Rio de Janeiro.

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DAY 7 – RIO DE JANEIRO​

Breakfast. Contemporary and modern architecture: City of Arts (Christian de Portzamparc), Casa das Canoas by Oscar Niemeyer, São Conrado beach, Moreira Salles Institute  and Lage Park.

Night in Rio de Janeiro.

DAY 8 – RIO DE JANEIRO

Breakfast. Brazilian modern architecture. Transfer to Niterói. In Niterói: Niemeyer Way. Museum of Contemporary Art of Niterói – MAC (Oscar Niemeyer). Transfer back to Rio de Janeiro. Residential Complex Mendes de Moraes (Pedregulho) of Affonso Reidy. Museum of Modern Art of Rio de Janeiro – MAM (Affonso Reidy).

Night in Rio de Janeiro.

DAY 9 – RIO DE JANEIRO

Breakfast. Tour through the city center. Avenida Presidente Vargas, Candelaria, Metropolitan Cathedral and Sambódromo. Edifício Gustavo Capanema (also known as Ministry of Education and Culture-MEC) joint design of a team of architects, among them Lucio Costa, Oscar Niemeyer and Affonso Reidy. Cinelândia, Municipal Theater, Library and City Hall.

We will know the surroundings of Porto Maravilha and its urban project, the renewed Praça Mauá and the Boulevard Olímpico as well as the most contemporary works of the city: Museum of Tomorrow (Santiago Calatrava), Art Museum of Rio – MAR.

Night in Rio de Janeiro.

DAY 10 – RIO DE JANEIRO

Day off.

DAY 11 – RIO DE JANEIRO

Return of the participants to their places of origin.

End of the trip.