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Gustavo Capanema Palace
| Gustavo Capanema Palace | |
|---|---|
Palácio Gustavo Capanema | |
 Southern façade | |
  Gustavo Capanema Palace Location within Rio de Janeiro | |
| General information | |
| Architectural style | Modernism |
| Location | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
| Coordinates | 22°54′33.12″S 43°10′25.78″W / 22.9092000°S 43.1738278°W |
| Current tenants | Ministry of Culture |
| Construction started | 1937 |
| Completed | 1945 |
| Owner | Federal government of Brazil |
| Technical details | |
| Floor count | 16 |
| Design and construction | |
| Architect(s) | Lúcio Costa Carlos Leão Oscar Niemeyer Affonso Eduardo Reidy Ernâni Vasconcelos Jorge Machado Moreira Le Corbusier |
| Engineer | Emílio Henrique Baumgart |
| Designated | 1948 |
| Reference no. | 375-T-1948 |
The Gustavo Capanema Palace (Portuguese: Palácio Gustavo Capanema), also known architecturally as the Ministry of Education and Health Building, is a government office building in downtown Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. As the first modernist project in Brazil, it is historically important to the architectural development of Modernism in the country and has been placed on Brazil's UNESCO tentative list.
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