Brazil is mostly known for its music, its football, its carnival and its impressive nature. However, in the country of more than 8.5 million square kilometers There is a good amount of architectural works worth visiting and admiring.
Although from the 16th to the end of the 19th century the country had a strong influence of European styles (such as the so -called colonial architecture of Portugal) was in the last twentieth century, especially since its third decade, when Brazil promoted a great avant -garde movement inspired by the great masters of Modernism as Le Corbusier, Mies van Dé Rohe, Richard Neutra and Frank Lloyd Wright. It is important to mention the support granted by the Government to allocate public resources to national infrastructure.
Next, we present some of the iconic buildings of Brazil that you should not miss if you are a lover of architecture.
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Amazonas Theater
For more than 120 years it is a space dedicated to music. It was built under the so -called rubber fever in which the Amazonian territories significantly exploited that resource. The theater was designed by the Heavenly Italian architect Sacardim With a Renaissance style, but with advanced technology of the time such as electric lighting. The idea of its sponsors was to make Manaos the most important center in the region. Although the above was achieved for a short time, the city and its theater became a mecca of classical music worldwide.