Brazil's cliches presentation for Füenfwerken Design at my internship in Wiesbaden, Germany in 2006.

1. In 1556, not long after the Portuguese first set foot
in Brazil, the Bishop Pero Fernandes Sardinha was
shipwercked on its shores and set about introducing
the gospel of Christ to the native “heathens”. The locals,
impressed with the glorious civilization the bishop
representated and eager to absorb it in its totality,
promptly ate him.
Thus was born Brazilian culture.
wired magazine

2. Brasil

3. Brasil
nature caipirinha amaz™nia
capoeira
beaches bras’lia ipanema violence
candomblŽ carnaval feijoada rocinha
soccer banana oscar niemeyer samba
corruption bahia sugar loaf favela
s‹o paulo copacabana acarajŽ funk oil
guaran‡ coffee tom jobim mulata lemon
bossa nova hate argentine carioca ronaldo
corcovado palm treessummer iguassu falls
maracan‹ vinicius de moraes chita

4. capoeira

5. capoeira
martial art developed in Brazil by African slaves
music time dictate the movements
atabaque, pandeiro, berimbau, floor drum...
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6. caipirinha

7. cachaa sugar cane alcohol
+ sugar and lime
caipirinha
or caju, strawberries, pineapple, kiwis, pass

8. beaches

9. beaches you can stay at the beach until the sunset...
it's the brazilian way of life!

10. soccer

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beach, society, field soccer

12. copacabana

13. wave patterned sidewalks
black and white portuguese stones
copacabana

14. ipanema

15. ÒThe Girl from IpanemaÓ
the bar where Vinicius de Moraes & Tom Jobim
wrote the famous song.
ipanema

16. oscar niemeyer

17. MAC museum of contemporary art
Bras’lia
Brasil's capital:
Copan bild
50's, 60's modern architecture
oscar niemeyer

18. sugar loaf

19. reached via a modern 75 passenger gondola
overlooking Guanabara Bay on a peninsula
extending into the Atlantic Ocean
sugar loaf

20. carnaval

21. carnaval

22. carnaval

23. carnaval

24. carnaval

25. feijoada

26. feijoada
black beans cooked with bacon, pork
sausage, cured beef and pork ribs

27. + white rice, collard greens, feijoada
orange and farofa
black beans cooked with bacon, pork
sausage, cured beef and pork ribs

28. there's more than 50 favelas in Rio
the bigest one is Rocinha
rocinha

29. there's more than 50 favelas in Rio
the bigest one is Rocinha
rocinha

30. corcovado

31. corcovado ÒChrist the RedeemerÓ
38 meters statue of Jesus
opened in 1884 and refurbished in 1980
accessed by car or train

32. guaran‡

33. central nervous system stimulants
can be the water extracts of the guarana plant,
due to the caffeine content.
guaran‡

34. amaz™nia

35. 7 million km2 represents over half of
the planet's remaining rainforests... amaz™nia

36. 7 million km2 represents over half of
the planet's remaining rainforests... amaz™nia
Brazil has 60% of the rainforest,
but also in Colombia, Peru, Venezuela, Ecuador,
Bolivia, Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana.

37. bras’lia

38. bras’lia
capital city of Brazil
urban planning and daring architecture
Lœcio Costa: urban planner
Oscar Niemeyer: chief architect
Roberto Burle Marx: landscape designer
based on the ideas ofLe Corbusier