Architectural models at the Oscar Niemeyer Museum, Curitiba, As objects of creation and dissemination

Abstract

The Oscar Niemeyer Museum of Curitiba, MON, is located in a building designed by the architect in two periods, 1967 and 2002, which has remained as a record of the evolution of his architecture. Among its extensive exhibition offering, a panoramic view of the architect’s work, the Niemeyer Space, is permanently displayed. The models, an optimal didactic medium for the dissemination of his architecture, star in this space. These models, complemented with drawings, photographs and texts, facilitate a close and effective approach to his architecture. Furthermore, some of them, made by the model maker Gilberto Antunes, Niemeyer’s regular collaborator, formed an important part of the projects’ creation processes, which gives them added interest. Through a bibliographic and photographic analysis, the capacity of dissemination and creation of the model in the MON is analyzed.