Museum of Modern Art in Caracas

Unbuilt museum

Museum of Modern Art in Caracas

Museo de Arte Moderno de Caracas

Model of Museum of Modern Art in Caracas

Approximate proposed location of Museum of Modern Art in Caracas

General information
Status| Never completed
Architectural style| Modernist
Town or city| Caracas
Country| Venezuela
Coordinates| 10°28′50″N 66°52′22″W﻿ / ﻿10.4805353°N 66.8728497°W﻿ / 10.4805353; -66.8728497
Technical details
Floor count| 4
Design and construction
Architect(s)| Oscar Niemeyer

The Museum of Modern Art in Caracas (Spanish: Museo de Arte Moderno de Caracas) was a proposed art museum in Caracas, Venezuela. It was designed in the form of an inverted pyramid, and proposed to be placed on a cliff in the neighborhood of Colinas de Bello Monte high above the Central Zone of Caracas. The proposed structure would be entirely opaque without a visual connection to its surroundings from the interior; natural light would only enter the building via a glass ceiling. It was designed between 1954 and 1955 by Oscar Niemeyer and never realized.[1][2][3]

## References

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1. ^ Albizu, Azier (2007). Venezuela y el problema de su identidad arquitectónica (in Spanish). Caracas: Universidad Central de Venezuela, Facultad de Arquitectura y Urbanismo, Consejo de Desarrollo Científico y Humanístico. p. 620\. ISBN 9789800024300.
2. ^ Barrios, Carola (2012). "Forma Transcrições arquitetônicas: Niemeyer e Villanueva em diálogo museal". Arquitexts. 13 (151). Retrieved 2016-08-17.
3. ^ Underwood, David (1994). Oscar Niemeyer and the Architecture of Brazil. New York: Rizzoli. pp. 95–98\. ISBN 0847816869.

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