Culture & sport · Modernism

Maracanã Stadium

Waldir Ramos, Raphael Galvão, Miguel Feldman, Oscar Valdetaro, Pedro Paulo B. Bastos, Orlando Azevedo, Antônio Dias Carneiro · Rio de Janeiro, Brazil · 1950

Key featuresOpened in 1950 and then the world's largest stadium; construction was only finished in 1965.

• Structure as expression
• Monumentality
• Geometry

Architect

Waldir Ramos, Raphael Galvão, Miguel Feldman, Oscar Valdetaro, Pedro Paulo B. Bastos, Orlando Azevedo, Antônio Dias Carneiro

Place

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Year

1950

Typology

Culture & sport

Movement

Modernism

Region

Americas