Search results
Aug 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...
- Stefanie Waldek
Jun 7, 2019 · Designed by Lucio Costa and Oscar Niemeyer, Brasilia was intended to be a monumental modernist city. Photothek via Getty Images. Fifty years of progress in five. The dream of a new capital city...
- Diana Budds
Brasilia, the capital city of Brazil, stands as a testament to the genius of modern urban planning and architecture. Designed by the acclaimed architect Oscar Niemeyer and urban planner Lúcio Costa, Brasilia was officially inaugurated on April 21, 1960.
A city that is at once urbs and civitas, Brasilia has preserved its original guiding principles intact, as reflected in the protection of its urban scales, legally protected by local and federal organisms of government of the country.
Dec 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...
People also ask
Does Brasilia work as a city?
What is Brasilia's urban design?
What makes Brasilia unique?
What makes Brasilia a sustainable city?
Jun 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...
Apr 25, 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.
