ARQBR Arquitetura e Urbanismo   Brazil   This church built in concrete is located on the edge of EPIA (Park Road of Industry and Supply), a major component of the radio-centric thoroughfare system implemented to support the architect Lucio Costa’s Pilot Project. EPIA later became an express

Grupo SP   Brazil   Un patio rehundido permite liberar la planta baja de un edificio de oficinas cuyo volumen se fragmenta en una serie de pabellones sobre rasante, revestidos con una sutil piel de chapa.

Oscar Niemeyer   Brazil   Of the government buildings of Brasília, Itamaraty, seat of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, is one of the most striking ones. In contrast to the contents of Lucio Costa’s master plan, in which all the Ministry buildings were accommodated in the assi

Oscar Niemeyer   Brazil   The Nacional Congress, which includes the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate, is located in a strategic site in Brasília. On the one hand, it defines the perspective of the esplanade where the Ministry buildings are, at the end of the Monumental Axis

Oscar Niemeyer   Brazil   The Planalto Palace (seat of government, where the President of the Republic meets with advisors and visitors) and the seat of the Federal Supreme Court (the highest authority of the judicial power) compose, with the National Congress, the Praça dos

Oscar Niemeyer   Brazil   Surrounded with symbolism, like any religious building, the Cathedral of Brasilia – whose official name is Catedral Metropolitana Nossa Senhora Aparecida – is one of the most expressive pieces in the capital. It is located in a secondary area of the

Oscar Niemeyer   Brazil   Alter the compound called Catetinho, which served as temporary accommodation during the visits of Juscelino Kubitschek to the capital, the Alvorada Palace was the first structure to be raised in the city of Brasília. The project was finished prior to

Carlos Eduardo Comas   Rio de Janeiro was a port of call on Le Corbusier’s way to Argentina in October 1929, and the Swiss architect then likened its urbanization to “filling the tub of the Danaids.” The scenery was not alpine; nonetheless, he found it “violent and sublime

Author of the famous images of the construction of Brasilia, Marcel Gautherot is one of the main figures of contemporary Brazilian photography. Born in Paris in 1910, he studied at the École Nationale des Arts Décoratifs, specializing in interior and

Guilherme Wisnik   Marcada por la obra de Niemeyer y Mendes da Rocha, la arquitectura brasileña del último medio siglo recoge las grandes transformaciones sociales y económicas del país.

Sylvia Ficher   La emoción de Clarice Lispector al visitar Brasilia en sus inicios nos lleva a reflexionar sobre el nacimiento de una nueva ciudad. ¿Puede considerarse Brasilia todavía hoy una ‘ciudad nueva’? ¿Cumple los atributos propuestos por Ricardo Trevisan par

Roberto Segre   Casi quinientos años separan el Project on the City 2 de Koolhaas, dedicado al elogio del shopping center, del Elogio de la locura de otro prestigioso holandés, Erasmo de Rotterdam, escrito en 1508 para denunciar las falsedades de la ciencia escolást

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