MAM Rio: Origin and Construction

Table 4: Its Own Site

Affonso Eduardo Reidy’s architecture and Burle Marx’s gardens

1. Affonso Eduardo Reidy and Roberto Burle Marx during the inauguration of the Mandello exhibition, 16 December 1952.
   Photograph: unidentified author
   
   
2. First model of MAM Rio made in 1953, undated photograph.
   Photograph: Jerry
   
   
3. Second maquette of MAM Rio made in 1956, photographed in May 1957.
   Photograph: Jerry
   
   
4. Image of the project for the gardens by Roberto Burle Marx published in the MAM Rio bulletin, 1956.
   
   
5. Floor plans with the occupation plan for the museum, published in the booklet O Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro (The Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro), 1960s.
   
   
6. Cover and inside pages of the booklet Sede definitiva do Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro (Permanent Location of the Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro), January 1954.
   
   
7. O plano arquitetônico do Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro (The Architectural plan of the Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro), text by Affonso Eduardo Reidy published in the MAM Rio bulletin, 1959.
   
   
8. Os jardins do Museu (The Gardens of the Museum), text by Roberto Burle Marx published in the MAM Rio bulletin, 1959.
   
   
9. Organisational chart of activities published in the MAM Rio bulletin, 1957.
   
   
10. Niomar Moniz Sodré, Carmen Portinho and the President of the Republic Juscelino Kubitschek next to the model of the helical staircase in the Exhibition Bloc, 13 November 1959.
    Photograph: Foto Carlos

acess the exhibition page