The Itatiaia Building ( Portuguese: ''Edifício Itatiaia'') is an

apartment An apartment (American English), or flat (British English, Indian English, South African English), is a self-contained housing unit (a type of residential real estate) that occupies part of a building, generally on a single story. There are ma ...

building in the Centro district of

Campinas Campinas (, ''Plains'' or ''Meadows'') is a Brazilian municipality in São Paulo State, part of the country's Southeast Region. According to the 2020 estimate, the city's population is 1,213,792, making it the fourteenth most populous Brazilian ...

São Paulo São Paulo (, ; Portuguese for 'Saint Paul') is the most populous city in Brazil, and is the capital of the state of São Paulo, the most populous and wealthiest Brazilian state, located in the country's Southeast Region. Listed by the GaWC a ...

Brazil Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area ...

. It was designed by the architect

Oscar Niemeyer Oscar Ribeiro de Almeida Niemeyer Soares Filho (15 December 1907 – 5 December 2012), known as Oscar Niemeyer (), was a Brazilian architect considered to be one of the key figures in the development of modern architecture. Niemeyer was ...

(1907-2012) in 1953 and completed in 1957. It was the only residential tower in Campinas until the early 1960s, and was the first Modernist building in the city. It occupies on a trapezoid-shaped plot of land on Irmã Serafina Avenue. It is often compared to another of building of the period, the Copan Building (''Edifício Copan'') in

References

{{reflist, 2, refs= {{cite web , url=http://www.campinas.sp.gov.br/governo/cultura/patrimonio/bens-tombados/verBem.php?id=230 , title=Processo 03/10: Edifício Itatiaia , language=Portuguese , place = Campinas, Brazil , publisher=Prefeitura de Campinas , date=2011 , accessdate=2016-08-10 {{cite journal , title=Arquitetura Moderna em Campinas: o Edifício Itatiaia , journal=Risco: Revista de Pesquisa em Arquitetura e Urbanismo , year=2009 , last=Silva Leme , first=Roberto , last2=Salgado , first2=Ivone , volume=9 , issue=1 , pages=22–34 , url=http://www.iau.usp.br/revista_risco/Risco9-pdf/02_art02_risco9.pdf , accessdate=2016-08-10 , archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924032242/http://www.iau.usp.br/revista_risco/Risco9-pdf/02_art02_risco9.pdf , archive-date=2015-09-24 , url-status=dead Residential skyscrapers in Brazil Modernist architecture in Brazil Oscar Niemeyer buildings Residential buildings completed in 1957