60 Years Ago, The Modernist City of Brasília Was Built From …
WEBAug 21, 2020 · When it was inaugurated in 1960, it was unlike any other city in the world, with a radical, artistic urban plan by Lúcio Costa, striking edifices by Oscar Niemeyer, and its avant-garde landscape...
Brasilia, Brazil: A Masterpiece of Modern Urban Planning and ...
WEBDesigned by the acclaimed architect Oscar Niemeyer and urban planner Lúcio Costa, Brasilia was officially inaugurated on April 21, 1960. This visionary city, with its unique layout and avant-garde architecture, is a symbol of …
Brasilia: Brazil’s ‘cautionary tale’ for utopian urbanists - Curbed
WEBJun 7, 2019 · Built from the ground up at breakneck speed between 1956 and 1961, the year it was inaugurated, it’s filled with beautiful, sculptural, and symbolic buildings by Oscar Niemeyer—a true master...
Brasilia: Building a city from scratch - BBC
WEBJun 18, 2014 · Together with the town planner Lucio Costa and landscape architect Roberto Burle Marx, Niemeyer designed and built the core of Brasilia – a capital city promised in Brazil’s 1891 republican...
Niemeyer's Brasilia: Does it work as a city? - BBC News
WEBDec 7, 2012 · Oscar Niemeyer the Brazilian architect who died this week will be best remembered for Brasilia, the city he helped design in the late 1950s. Niemeyer's modernist architecture made Brazil's...
Brasília Architecture Guide: 16 Projects to Understand the ... - ArchDaily
WEBJan 18, 2023 · Brasília Architecture Guide: 16 Projects to Understand the Scale of the Brazilian Capital. From the 19th century onwards, with the Industrial Revolution, the growing population, and the...
Planned from scratch: Brasilia at 60 in pictures - BBC
WEBApr 21, 2020 · Together with the town planner Lucio Costa and landscape architect Roberto Burle Marx, Niemeyer designed and built the core of Brasilia in just 41 months.
Brasília | Brazil: Five Centuries of Change - Brown University
WEBHailed as a modernist miracle and intended to transform the nation as a symbol of modernity in the wilderness, Brasília was in the years around its construction, from 1956 to 1960, an enormous source of national pride, all the more acute as the city’s design was considered uniquely Brazilian.
From Utopia To Reality: Brasília's 60th Anniversary - ArchDaily
WEBMay 8, 2020 · Brasília is perhaps one of the most exceptional cases of urban growth that we know of. The capital city is the result of a national public competition, and was designed for approximately...
Brasilia in Context: The Dissemination and Character of Modern ...
WEBJun 25, 2021 · Brasilia in Context: The Dissemination and Character of Modern Architecture in Brazil. The construction of Brasilia, designed by Lucio Costa as the new capital of Brazil, dedicated in 1959, was a dramatic experience in the history of Brazilian architecture and urban design.
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