Lucio Costa, the architect and urban planner whose ... Although Mr. Costa detested the comparison once made by an American writer, Brasilia’s plan does resemble an airplane, with wings and ...

The monumental axis central to Costa's plan. Image © Wikimedia user Limongi Licensed under CC BY 3.0 Costa's Gustavo Capanema Palace (also known as the Ministry of ...

Brasília, Brazil’s capital city, stands as one of the most ambitious and controversial urban planning projects of the 20th century. Conceived in the 1950s by visionary architect Oscar Niemeyer and ...

It is worth noting at this point that Lucio Costa, like Niemeyer a disciple ... changed the tenor of the way we talk about and plan cities. Brasilia’s urbanism was not just thoroughly optimistic ...

The Brazilian modernist movement definitively established Lucio Costa and Oscar ... completely at the mercy of the Plan. In fact, these cities overlap with Brasilia. Despite being larger and ...

Niemeyer was the architect and Lucio Costa the urban ... Costa's airplane plan, ordinary human life has established itself. "All you have to do is to go out of central Brasilia and you get ...

This reflection stirred Lucio Costa and convinced him to compete to draw the master plan for Brasilia. The idea is to represent democracy in a concrete way, that is to say first of all the balance ...

The US Department of State has announced that Chicago-based Studio Gang Architects has been selected to create a new American embassy compound in Brasilia, the Brazilian capital city designed by ...

BRASILIA (Reuters ... map out in their intricate plans was where to put the rubbish. The city's creators, world famous architect Oscar Niemeyer and urban planner Lucio Costa, could never ...

August 2015 14th at 23h59min (Brasilia time) is the deadline of the 1st Public Call for Submissions of research projects from the Lucio Costa Centre, for the purpose of selecting previously ...