Brasília

Year

1960

Landscape architect

Oscar Niemeyer Oscar Niemeyer

Type

landscape

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Brasília is a planned federal capital cut into the cerrado of central Brazil and inaugurated on 21 April 1960, conceived as a deliberate gesture of national modernization under President Juscelino Kubitschek. Lúcio Costa's competition-winni …

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