On 21 April 1960 Brazil inaugurated its new capital, built from nothing on the central plateau in under four years to Lucio Costa's airplane-shaped plan, with Oscar Niemeyer's cathedral, congress and palaces at its heart. It is the largest realized experiment in modernist city planning, World Heritage listed while barely thirty years old.
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Designer of the capital's principal civic buildings.
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Oscar Niemeyer designed the cathedral, congress buildings and presidential palaces at the heart of Brasilia.
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Additional Source Pritzker Architecture Prize (Wikipedia)Brasilia, Design and construction
Brasilia's functionally zoned master plan is a direct, frequently cited built application of Athens Charter urban planning principles.
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Pritzker Architecture Prize (Wikipedia)
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