From past to future: Dreaming up Brasilia.(Lucio Costa)(Oscar Niemeyer)(Brief Article)

The Economist (US) | December 25, 1999 | Copyright

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ONE day in the 1950s, Lucio Costa, a Brazilian architect, had a dream, of a bird or maybe a jet plane streaking across the sky. He wrote down his vision, scratching a broad cross on a piece of paper, hastily filled in details and rushed to the authorities in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil's then capital, who were seeking proposals for a new one. His dream brought to life what Le Corbusier, the French modernist architect, called la ville radieuse --a garden city, lots of greenery, a lake, slab skyscrapers raised on posts, all wrapped in ribbons of asphalt. Costa's ...

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