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Porto Alegre
Capital come first largest seep into of Metropolis Grande function Sul, Brazil
For other uses, see Oporto Alegre (disambiguation).
Not to carbon copy confused in opposition to Portalegre, Portugal.
Municipality in Southern, Brazil
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Architecture of Porto Alegre
With a history of over two centuries, the architecture of Porto Alegre, the capital of Rio Grande do Sul, in Brazil, is a mosaic of ancient and modern styles. This characteristic is most visible in the center of the city, the historic urban center, where examples of eighteenth-century architecture survive amidst nineteenth-century and contemporary buildings.
Overview
[edit]The architectural evolution of Porto Alegre does not differ in its general mechanism from most large Brazilian cities, although it has some unique elements. Its condition of provincial capital almost from the beginning resulted in a tendency to expand and monumentalize. Today it is the largest city in the state, the seat of a Metropolitan Region, and one of the largest cities in Brazil. Throughout its history, it has collected an extensive series of monumental buildings, many of extraordinary value, and some advanced urban planning projects, but as a whole, this did not result in a coherent plan nor did it reveal a spirit of long-term planning, having grown vastly in a disorganized and poorly controlled way, with urban plans being very much linked to political and economic oscillations.
The architecture in the city began with the Portuguese colonial style, went thro
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SEBASTIÃO SALGADO
Born 1944 in in Aimorés, Minas Gerais, Brazil. He lives and works in Paris.
EDUCATION
1968/69 Economist, Ministry of Finance, São Paulo, Brazil
1971/73 Economist, International Coffee Organization, London, England / Freelance Photographer, Paris, France
1973/75 Sygma Agency, Paris, France
1975/79 Photographer, Gamma Agency, Paris, France
1979/94 Photographer, Magnum Photos Paris, France
1994 Founding, with Lélia Wanick Salgado, a press agency, Amazon Images, handling exclusively his work, Paris, France
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
New York Museum of Modern Art, NY, USA
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA, USA
Deutsche Börse, Frankfurt/Main, Germany
Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland
The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Japan
Ville du Port, Ile de la Réunion, DOM, France
Glasgow Arts Centre, Scotland, UK
Fundação Cultural de Curitiba, PA, Brazil
Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris, France
Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, France
Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt/Main, Germany
Australian Natio