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Oscar Niemeyer is a Brazilian architect known to be the father of modernism in South America. In the 1950s, he has greatly contributed to designing and building Brasilia, the new capital of his country. Niemeyer is celebrated for his love for curvatures and soft lines in design.
Paul Goldberger, the renowned architectural critic once wrote,? Niemeyer didn?t compromise modernism?s utopian ideals, but when filtered through his sensibility, the stern, unforgiving rigor of so much European modernism became as smooth as Brazilian jazz.?
In 1968, the head of the Mondadori publishing company, Georgio Mondadori has chosen Niemeyer to create the new headquarters for the publishing house in Italy. Mondadori wished that the building would resemble the Brazilian ‘Itamaraty Palace’ or the ?Palace of the Arches?. Photography: Karina Castro
Although the mischievous architect agreed to the Italian publicist?s request, he opted to alter the design and build what became one of his dearest projects in the whole of Europe.
Mondadori has asked the Portuguese photographer and digital artist, Karina Castro, Who is based in Milan (Italy), to photograph of the 40-year-old building and the resulting collection of pictures was overwhelming.
Photography: Karina Castro
?Whoever goes to see the Mondadori headquarters remains astonished because nobody has ever seen a colonnade in which the arches are different from each other? Niemey...