The Federal Government of Brazil, the União, operates according to a three-branch, democratic system. But you’d never know it looking at the Câmara dos Deputados. Oscar Niemeyer designed it, and the famed modernist architect was an affiliate of the Brazilian Communist Party. He built the parliament hall in the classroom style, with the black leather Eames-ian task chairs all dutifully facing the lectern in front. Even with the room’s oblong shape and gently tapered rows, the structure more closely resembles the parliament halls of Russia, North Korea, and China than any others.
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