BRAZILIAN CONDITIONS - COMPLEX AND SIMPLE

Separating fact from fiction in Brasilia is no easy task. Equally problematic is evaluating the work of Oscar Niemeyer, an architect who has decisively in?uenced two centuries of architectural history and is still building. These conditions providedthe starting point for research by the 2004-05 Rüdiger Lainer Studio at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts. Brazilian Conditions is a travel manual and architectural guidebook for the studio's trip to Brasilia containing projects such as the plans for atwin of Niemeyer's Niteroi Museum, an abstract sculpture that thematizes eight principles of Brazilian architecture, and a new urban plan for a city of 250,000 inhabitants.