Two Brazilian capitals; architecture and urbanism in Rio De Janeiro and Brasília.

Main entry:

Evenson, Norma.

Title & Author:

Two Brazilian capitals; architecture and urbanism in Rio De Janeiro and Brasília.

Publication:

New Haven, Yale University Press, 1973.

Description:

xvi, 225, [100] pages illustrations 29 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-225).

Exhibitions:

Exhibited: "Vieux livres nouvelles villes = Old books new cities", Centre canadien d'architecture, Dec. 12, 2013-Mar. 14, 2014.

Summary:

Brazilians are noted for city building- flamboyant, primitive, exciting, stylish cities. This book captures the spirit of the building process well as its results in Brazil's old and new capital cities. The romantic magic of Rio de Janeiro's dramatic setting, and the different vision of Brasilia's dramatic, white buildings, rising above a vast, empty plain. Through a methodical, historically sequenced narrative, one is enticed to understand what really happened in the evolution of the two cities. A major part of the book concerns the planning and building process in Brasilia, and includes the various runner-up plans produced by the international competition for the design of the new Brazilian capital in the 1950s. The author has undertaken the task of explaining the processes and products of Brazil's built environment in terms of complex and idiosyncratic cultural attitudes. Rio and Brasilia, via the startling mixture of stark modernity, rampant Baroque, and indigenous clutter which express the nature of the cities and the people of Brazil, capture some unique aspects of the Latin soul.

Resources:
French equivalent / Équivalent français

ISBN:

0300015402
9780300015409

Subject:

City planning Brazil Rio de Janeiro.
Architecture Brazil Rio de Janeiro.
Architecture Brazil Brasília (Distrito Federal)
City planning Brazil Brasília (Distrito Federal)
Architecture Brazil.
City planning Brazil.
Cities and towns Planning Brasília, Brazil
Architecture Brésil Rio de Janeiro.
Urbanisme Brésil Rio de Janeiro.
Architecture Brésil Brasília (Distrito Federal)
Urbanisme Brésil Brasília (Distrito Federal)
Architecture Brésil.
Urbanisme Brésil.
74.26 geography of Central and South America.
Architecture
City planning
Brazil
Brazil Brasília (Distrito Federal)
Brazil Rio de Janeiro
Brasília
Rio de Janeiro
Brasilia.
Cities and towns Planning Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Holdings:

Location: Library main 70056
Call No.: W4065; ID:86-B10975
Status: Available

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