Work
Cathedral of Brasília
Explore in the Atlas →Niemeyer's hyperboloid of sixteen soaring concrete ribs, mostly buried with a glazed crown reaching skyward, gives Brazil's new modernist capital a sculptural, plastic icon of sacred space.
Ritual Power Fantasy
Details
- Type
- Building
- Location
- Brasília, Brazil
Classifications
- Holder
- Individual
- Source of authority
- Reason
- Subject
- Human centred
- Political position
- Hegemonic
- Mode of transmission
- Text drawing
- Knowledge type
- Relational embodied
- Epistemic cluster
- Western philosophical
Connections
- exemplifies Modernism
- exemplifies Brazilian Modernism
Referenced by
- Oscar Niemeyer authored
- James Holston critiqued
Sources
- Styliane Philippou. Oscar Niemeyer: Curves of Irreverence. Yale University Press, 2008.
- David Underwood. Oscar Niemeyer and Brazilian Free-Form Modernism. George Braziller, 1994.
Cite this entry
First published May 2026Last revised Jul 2026
CLAD. "Cathedral of Brasília." Atlas of Architectural Thought. CLAD, 2026. https://www.cl-ad.com.au/research/atlas/work/cathedral-of-brasilia/. Accessed July 17, 2026.