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Oscar Niemeyer on Designing Brasilia

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In the 1950s, Brazil decided it would be a perfectly reasonable idea to move the capital to the center of the country's interior ...
plateau. To facilitate this endeavor they enlisted Oscar Niemeyer - an ardent communist and proponent of modern architecture who, alongside his buddy Le Corbusier, had co-designed the UN building in New York - to build Brasilia, a crazy spacepod city in the middle of the planalto.
Posted: 08/10/2011 | Views: 5,277 | Duration: 10:43
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