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The city right in the middle of the country, designed by Oscar Niemeyer, elaborated by many and loved by the citizens, celebrates its 57th anniversary...
- May Utopia Overcome Dystopia
- Brasília: Made only by Men?
- On The Small Experiences of Urban Life in The Heart of Brasília
- It's All Brasilia!
by Daniel Mangabeira - Bloco Arquitetos Brasília and quarantine are antagonistic. This city was not invented for cloistered residents. Obviously no cities were designed for this, but the Plano Piloto de Brasília has particularities that make seclusion the antithesis of what it was meant to be. Lucio Costa's French-affiliated city was born to be fre...
by Gabriela Cascelli Farinasso e Luiza Dias Coelho - Arquitetas inVisíveis Behind every great man is a great woman. A saying as common as it is ancient, has for years synthesized the relationship between architects-, and with Brasília, it would be no different. The process of creating the new Capital has forever cemented the names of Brazilian men ...
by Maribel Aliaga Fuentes - Professor at the Department of Design, Expression and Representation at FAU-UnB Today I decided to venture into a new world outside the Superquadras circuit. Early in the morning I left the Setor Hoteleiro Sul near Parque da Cidade towards Eixinho, crossed the W3 and went down the internal street of the southern commerci...
by Luiz Eduardo Sarmento - architect and urban planner at IPHAN and Senior Adviser at IAB-DF. "(...) I felt this movement, this intense life of the true Brasilians (...). This is all very different from what I had imagined for this urban center (...). Those Brazilians took care of it who built the city and are legitimately there. In fact, the dream...
Aug 4, 2020 · Why does Brasilia, built in the 1950s, pop up on a 1920s map of South America? (via Strange Maps)
Oct 2, 2024 · Brasilia, city, capital of Brazil. Located in the Federal District within Goias state on the central plateau of Brazil, it lies between the headwaters of the Tocantins, Parana, and Sao Francisco rivers. Because of its unique city plan and architecture, it was designated a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1987.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Region. Latin America and the Caribbean. Brasília (/ brəˈzɪliə / brə-ZIL-ee-ə, [5][6] Brazilian Portuguese: [bɾaˈzili.ɐ, bɾaˈziljɐ] ⓘ) is the federal capital of Brazil and seat of government of the Federal District, located in the Brazilian highlands in the country's Central-West region. It was founded by President Juscelino ...
Brasilia promised to promote a sense of equality and connection between the north and south, the coast and the interior. Kubitschek’s presidency and the construction of Brasilia represent a distinct moment in Brazilian history when the national spirit was lifted and the international public mesmerized by a gargantuan project in city-planning without parallel in modern civilization.
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Apr 17, 2020 · Brasilia "has the shape of a circumference -- so big that from the top of the 28-storey skyscraper where the parliament's administrative services will be housed the (city) boundaries will not be ...
