Original and redesigns analysis: unbuilt versions of Lucio Costa and Oscar Niemeyer Pavilion New York

Abstract

Recently the House of Lucio Costa provided the original versions of unbuilt Lucio Costa and Oscar Niemeyer for Brazil Pavilion at Expo 1939, in New York. The precious and until then undisclosed records were digitized at the Laboratory of History and Theory of Architecture UniRitter, in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, the institution responsible for research entitled “Lucio Costa: Complete Works” at the request of architect Elisa Maria Costa, head of Casa Lucio Costa responsible for a large part of the collection of the architect. Analyzed in this work, the version of the Oscar Niemeyer Pavilion from the documents that we had the opportunity to handle and we present here, and especially the version of Lucio Costa, whose analysis was complemented by redesign using current technologies in computing and modeling graphic.