Local Modernism in danger until this day. The case of the Lebanese Pavilion in the International Permanent Fair of Lebanon in Tripoli by Oscar Niemeyer.

The paper’s aim is to present the architecture of a Modernist building belonging to a monumental complex from the 1960’s, designed by Oscar Niemeyer, and built in Tripoli, Lebanon, by local progressive engineers. Several authors published papers concerning this International Permanent Fairground complex, yet a specific understanding of some of its iconic buildings is missing from the literature. In this building, the form-evolution of Modernist pioneer Oscar Niemeyer reaches out to local architecture and its most diffused visible element, transposing it from tradition to his own Modernist style, through aesthetic and technology.