São Francisco de Assis Church, Paumpulha project, Belo Horizonte, MInas Gerais, 1943. Mosaic mural by Paulo Werneck, architectural project by Oscar Niemeyer.Paulo Werneck at his Rio de Janeiro apartment.IRB Headquarters (Instituto de Resseguros do Brasil), Rio de Janeiro, 1944. Mosaic mural by Paulo Werneck, architecture by MMM Roberto.Study for mosaic mural for IRB Headquarters (Instituto de Resseguros do Brasil), Rio de Janeiro, 1944. Palácio do Itamaraty, Brasilia, 1960. Mosiac mural by Paulo Werneck, architecture by Oscar Niemeyer.Detail of Paulo Werneck's mosaic mural at the Ministry of Finance's headquarters in Rio De Janeiro, 1943. Architecture by Luiz Moura.Monte Líbano Club, 1957, Rio de Janeiro. Mosaic mural by Paulo Werneck, architecture by João Kahir.Hotel Brasilia Palace, Brasilia, 1958. Mosaic mural by Paulo Werneck, architecture by Oscar Niemeyer.Seguradoras Edifice, 1950, Rio de Janeiro, Mosaic mural by Paulo Werneck, architecture by MMM Roberto.Banco do Brasil, Santos branch, 1970, São Paulo. Mosiac mural by Paulo Werneck.
Tonight, February 19th, AIA NY, at the Center for Architecture, will host the lecture ‘Paulo Werneck: Brazilian Muralist.’ Participant in founding a modernist Brazilian aesthetic, Werneck’s colorful mosaic murals adorned official, residential and business buildings in Brazil throughout the 1940’s – 1970’s, including seminal projects as Oscar Niemeyer’s Hotel Brasilia Palace, 1958, Palácio de Itamaraty, 1970, the Federal Senate headquarters in Brasilia, 1978, as well as creating the iconic murals for Niemeyer’s early Pampulha complex project, completed in 1943 – which received international acclaim as it was part of the ‘Brazil Builds’ exhibition, at MoMA, NY, in the same year. Invited guest lecturer, NY-based designer and Werneck’s grandson Gaspar Saldanha, will address Werneck’s influential practice and how his design legacy informs Saldanha’s current adaptations of his grandfather’s renowned murals in architecture and furniture design projects. More info on the lecture here.
