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Architects: Miguel Pinto Guimarães Arquitetos Associados
- Area: 32 m²
- Year: 2016
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Photographs:Leonardo Finotti
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Lead Architects: Miguel Pinto Guimarães, Renata Duhá
Text description provided by the architects. GN Chapel follows an important tradition on Brazilian architecture that is the construction of religious buildings on private residences. During the colonial period (especially sec XVIII and XIX), over the influence of Portuguese architecture, most of the farms had its own private chapel. The farms and surrounding cities were part of an important economic system based on the culture of coffee, one of the pillars of the Brazilian economy by that period. The existence of such peculiar architectural buildings was such a landmark that they boosted an artistic style that was once very remarkable and important for Brazil. To this artistic style was given the name of Barroque its most well known being the one developed in Minas Gerais.
