Itamaraty Palace Essay

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The Itamaraty Palace is an architectural project that has not been promoted with the appropriate importance that has under the vast work of Oscar Niemeyer. Although the Palace with its great contribution of significant features, like the emphasis on the complex architectural design in the exterior and interior, has not been value as it should be. Important aesthetic characteristics of the design in the Itamaraty Palace uphold that this building is consider Modern and it establish a turning point for the relevance of architect Oscar Niemeyer in the modernist movement. The palace, Brazil’s Department of Foreign Affairs, function is to represent, negotiate, inform, presence meeting, signing acts, organize or attend receptions, dinners, and banquets that are part of the diplomatic work. The new Palace must have an architectural program that qualifies the diplomatic activities demanded by the international politics. For this purpose, the Palace was design with spaces and environments that hallow symbolic exchanges by enactment of the usual Protocol. This spaces correlate through environments with different degrees of access and permanence, in a way that the foyers, halls, the garden and the porch have scales of intimacy and formality. Number of remarkable features makes the building part of the modern movement. It has a square design, the facades are identical, the …show more content…

However, whatever the category of users, the route is the key to understanding the spaces of the architecture of the Itamaraty Palace. Functional restrictions to freedom for exterior/interior emphasize the hits, while isolate ideally the arcade on the water mirror and an aquatic

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