Spotlight: Lúcio Costa
Brazilian planner, preservationist and modernist thinker Lúcio Costa (27 Feburary 1902 – 13 June 1998) is best known for his 1957 plan of Brasília that shaped the Brazilian capital into a monument to utopian modernism. A resolute and often controversial figure in the Brazilian establishment, Costa’s contributions to Brazilian architecture helped to shape the distinctive modernism that was practically Brazil’s official style until the 1980s.
The monumental axis central to Costa's plan. Image © <a href='https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Monumental_axis.jpg'>Wikimedia user Limongi</a> Licensed under <a href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en'>CC BY 3.0</a>
Brazilian planner, preservationist and modernist thinker Lúcio Costa (27 Feburary 1902 ? 13 June 1998) is best known for his 1957 plan of Brasília that shaped the Brazilian capital into a monument to utopian modernism. A resolute and often controversial figure in the Brazilian establishment, Costa?s contributions to Brazilian architecture helped to shape the distinctive modernism that was practically Brazil?s official style until the 1980s.
Lúcio Costa. Image <a href='http://archi.ru/russia/image_large.html"id=65692'>via archi.ru</a>
Educated internationally, Costa graduated from the Escola Nacional de Belas Artes at the age of 22 and, only 6 yea...
The monumental axis central to Costa's plan. Image © <a href='https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Monumental_axis.jpg'>Wikimedia user Limongi</a> Licensed under <a href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en'>CC BY 3.0</a>
Brazilian planner, preservationist and modernist thinker Lúcio Costa (27 Feburary 1902 ? 13 June 1998) is best known for his 1957 plan of Brasília that shaped the Brazilian capital into a monument to utopian modernism. A resolute and often controversial figure in the Brazilian establishment, Costa?s contributions to Brazilian architecture helped to shape the distinctive modernism that was practically Brazil?s official style until the 1980s.
Lúcio Costa. Image <a href='http://archi.ru/russia/image_large.html"id=65692'>via archi.ru</a>
Educated internationally, Costa graduated from the Escola Nacional de Belas Artes at the age of 22 and, only 6 yea...
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