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Brasilia is one of the most ambitious urban planning experiments of the 20th century — a purpose-built capital city of Brazil inaugurated in 1960, designed by urban planner Lúcio Costa and architect Oscar Niemeyer, with landscape design by Roberto Burle Marx. Recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, Brasilia embodies the ideals of High Modernism on a monumental scale, its master plan arranged in the form of an airplane or bird, with sweeping government buildings, vast open plazas, and Niemeyer’s iconic sculptural civic structures defining the cityscape. As a living laboratory of urban planning ideology, Brasilia remains a subject of intense architectural debate and admiration, celebrated for its formal grandeur while also studied for the complex social realities that emerged from its utopian design principles.
Completed in 1964 under the creative mastery of Oscar Niemeyer, the National Congress of Brazil serves as a nexus of historical context, potent symbolism, and audacious artistic innovation. Situated at…
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Inaugurated in 2022, the Church of the Holy Family stands as a remarkable symbol of the innovative approach of ARQBR Arquitetura e Urbanismo. This monumental masterpiece not only marks a…
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The Ministry of the Army is a well-known public garden Roberto Burle Marx composed in 1970, located in Brasilia, Brazil. The project was a joint effort between Roberto Burle Max…
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