MONUMENTAL VOID (2010)
Dreamed since its colonization, Brasilia begins construction in 1956 under the direction of President Juscelino Kubitschek. Planned under Lúcio Costa and Oscar Niemeyer, the city acquires a monumental character in a different way from other cities because in the Plano Piloto emptiness has been designed to represent the Nation’s power. The great distances along the monumental axis alter social encounters and instead small activities and urban catalyzers along the Plano Piloto, nurtured by spontaneity and the ephemerality of the everyday life of the city, reign. In the end, Brasilia’s monumentality is not ascribed to an object, building or zone, it is instead part of the entire tissue of the city. Brasilia, the desired capital, the image of progress, was formulated and continues to be projected as the world’s most modern city. Even though it is now declared as world heritage, its importance was already proclaimed since before its construction, the mere act of conceiving it, whether we like it or not, was already a triumph for the Modern Project.
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Team / Equipo:
Gabriela Beauchamp
Mariangely Cruz Ayala
Lourdes del Mar Cruz
Marcelo López Dinardi
Eduardo M. Llinás Meseguer
Oscar Oliver Didier
Carlos Orraca
Marilyn Rodríguez
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