Brasilia - Docomomo Portugal

Editors: Ana Tostões, Ivan Blasi

Guest editors: Sylvia Ficher, Andrey Rosenthal Schlee

Keywords: Modern Movement, Modern architecture, Brasilia modern architecture, World Heritage, Modern urban design.
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.52200/43.I.2ZGGEV4Y

Since Brasilia’s World Heritage inscription in 1987, the city has developed public awareness regarding the value of a major accomplishment in the history of urbanism. The singularity of Brasilia lies in its ability of being simultaneously rooted in the past while looking ahead to the future, envisioning an approach that should affirm Brazil’s industrialization effort and the need to provide access to life quality incorporating a specific genuine cultural tradition; an approach where the new capital should be the image of the homeland. Lúcio Costa, the architect who sensed and perceived the need to rescue architectural heritage, formulated unprecedented theoretical principles, articulating both realities. He was aware of the fact that modern architecture was a powerful means to foster a national identity because, according to modern principles argued in Brazil, a bond should exist between an erudite avant-garde and traditional popular features. Costa revealed the structural resemblance between raw architecture from the 18th Century—the plain Portuguese style—and the new constructions, discovering the same logic, rationality, rigor and strictness.
see full text

Editorial

Brasilia 1960-2010: Modern Movement Universal Ideal
Ana Tostões

Essays

Listing and Protecting the MoMo. Brazil/Brasilia
Sylvia Ficher, Andrey Rosenthal Schlee

The Competition for Brasilia’s Pilot Plan: Territory and Infrastructure
Jeferson Tavares

The Dislocation of Brazil’s Capital: a Long-Standing Project
Farès el-Dahdah

Lúcio Costa and the Question of Monumentality in his Pilot Plan for Brasilia
José Pessôa

Modern and Traditional: Brasilia’s Paradigms
Sylvia Ficher, Pedro Paulo Palazzo

A Myth that Left the Greenhouse
Hugo Segawa

Brasilia. Monumentality Issues
Carlos Eduardo Comas

The Campus of the University of Brasilia
Andrey Rosenthal Schlee

Foreign Architecture in Brasilia
Sylvia Ficher, Paulo Roberto Alves dos Santos

Athos Bulcão and the Architecture of Brasilia
Rafael Miura Bonazzi

The Restoration of the Alvorada Palace
Hattie Hartman