André Chiote - new illustration work inspired on the legacy of João Batista Vilanova Artigas

Slightly one year after our last post featuring the work of the architect/illustrator André Chiote, the architect got in touch with our blog again to share his new work inspired by the Brazilian architect João Batista Vilanova Artigas.  

"June 23rd, 2015, the Brazilian architect João Batista Vilanova Artigas would be 100 years.

To celebrate the occasion my last series of illustrations are on his work, one of the most relevant of the Brazilian (and not only) Modern Movement. Extremely  expressive, the work of Vilanova Artigas, despite using a few architectural style elements can, by its intelligence and composition sensibility, be iconic with enormous strength.

Combining the texture of materials (concrete, wood, etc.) and a surgical use of colour, the result of Artigas' work is a set of buildings with great plasticity, becoming an architectural legacy of inspiration."

- André Chiote

 

The Architecture illustration of André Chiote - the World Cup stadiums

Our blog continues to follow the work of the Portuguese architect André Chiote regarding the illustration posters that seek to highlight reference Architecture projects all around the world. André Chiote released a new series of illustrations, this time featuring some of the main stadiums of the World Cup that is taking place now in Brazil. 

These illustrations (as well as the illustrations featured in the past collections) can be purchased in André Chiote's website. 

WORLD CUP STADIUMS - STATEMENT

"Nowadays, the sports infra structures are, by their social relevance and impact on cities, real cathedrals. 

The construction of new football stadiums means, for a country who hosts an event like a World Cup, the statement to the world of its technical, financial and cultural capacity. 

The new architectural objects are landmarks in the cities that will perpetuate in the future as a cultural and social legacy.

And the stadiums of the World Cup Brazil – 2014, are now and will remain in future, sport and architectural icons, symbols who will help the affirmation of Brazil as a world power."

- André Chiote

Another set of illustrations by André Chiote - Sports' Buildings

The Portuguese architect André Chiote released a new set of architecture illustrations, this time under the theme of Sports Buildings. André Chiote kindly sent us these new illustrations to be published on our blog, 9 months after the first post that addressed to his first illustration works, under the theme of Museums.

Below we publish the architecture illustrations ceded by André Chiote, this time complemented by an introduction written by the architect. Consult the architect's blog to have access to other of its projects.
   

"When I first began my Project on developing architectural illustrations I selected buildings which underlined a specific functional program with acknowledged impact on contemporary society.My previous approach took me through museums all over the world, as I found they could stand as emblematic icons with such a strong ability of recognition that I could synthesize each of them in a expressive graphic composition. The mass culture and it’s power to project symbols which can represent the collective urban memory helped me to pick up my new design subject, Sport’s buildings. Sport’s capacity to gather crowds builds true contemporary cathedrals."

- André Chiote 

ARCHITECTURE REFERENCES: Niteroi Museum of Contemporary Art, Oscar Niemeyer

"The MAC-Niterói project reveals the daring of an experienced artist, responsible for a production that presents a very personal reading of the precepts of rationalist architecture lecorbusiana matrix.
In the 80s, the democratic regime was recovered in Brazil and Oscar Niemeyer returned. He found a different country than it was when he was summoned to design Brasilia, a country whose population is spread in the peripheries of cities. In the works of this period Niemeyer continues to work with types already explored, winding slabs, domes, arches and platforms, in short, the vocabulary of curved universe.

Located at the top of Mirante da Boa Viagem (Boa Viagem viewpoint) on Avenida Almirante Benjamin Sodré of the city of Niteroi, enjoying a splendid view of Sugar Loaf and Corcovado, as the city of Niteroi is opposite Guanabara Bay in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, accessed via an impressive bridge or ferry.

The architect Oscar Niemeyer summarizes his project for the Museum of Contemporary Art in Niteroi: "The field was narrow, surrounded by the sea and the solution came naturally, with the inevitable starting point the central support. From him, architecture occurred spontaneously as a flower. The sea view was beautiful and had to take it. I failed the building and beneath it stretched the picture even more rich. I defined then the profile of the museum. A line created from the ground and continuously grows and spreads, sensual, even coverage. The shape of the building, which always imagined circular , was fixed and I stopped inside passionate. Around the museum created a gallery open to the sea, repeated on the second floor, a mezzanine bent over the large exhibition hall. "
Also in the words of its creator, the museum emerges like a flower in the rock that holds them.

Created from a revolutionary figure of double curvature, the Museum stands on the cliff as a symbolic lighthouse built overlooking the bay.The combination of the elements that surround it, an open square of 2500 square meters, a reflecting pool at its base with 817 square meters and 60 meters deep, thereby giving the structure an appearance of lightness. The modernist structure with circular lines and saucer-shaped, has sometimes been likened to a UFO. The structure rests on a water source from which emerge the flying saucer appears white, pretending to be suspended in the air."
- text from WikiArquitectura
 

André Chiote's illustration on the Niemeyer's project

The Architecture illustration of André Chiote

To "simbolize and summarize" was the challenge that the Portuguese architect André Chiote proposed himself - his illustrations isolate the differentiating elements of several reference Architecture projects.

After being contacted by our blog, André Chiote kindly gave us a brief statement about his work: "Taking architecture as a motto and as an icon, I developed a set of images where I intended both to underline the unmistakable and iconic side of a building, and to create a graphic composition whose presence takes hold beyond the building itself." To the Portuguese newspaper Público André had said that "the choice of buildings to work relates to the recognition that they have in the collective memory of architects, and with the graphical capability that certain building contains."

Below we publish the architecture illustrations ceded by André Chiote. Consult the architect's blog to have access to other of its projects.