| has gloss | eng: The Gustavo Capanema Palace (in Portuguese, Palácio Gustavo Capanema) is a modernist building in Rio de Janeiro designed by a team composed by Lucio Costa, Affonso Eduardo Reidy, Ernani Vasconcellos, Carlos Leão and Jorge Machado Moreira. Oscar Niemeyer was an intern at Costa's office, taking an important role on the design process. The design team invited the Swiss-French worldwide famous architect Le Corbusier to oversee the project. The project was delivered by the French architect in 1935-1936. Construction started in 1939 and was completed in 1943, to house the new Ministry of Education and Health of Brazil (later split into separate ministries of Education, Culture and Health). Therefore, it is sometimes referred as Ministério da Educação e Saúde Pública or MESP. In 1960 the national capital was moved to Brasília and the building was kept as an office for the ministry in Rio, which remains to nowadays. It is still regarded as a fine example of bold modernist architecture. |
