Brasília: a Modernist Masterpiece
The largest city on the planet that wasn’t in existence at the beginning of the 20th century, the city of Brasília was built in 1960 to serve as the new capital of Brazil. One of the greatest civic engineering achievements in history, the city core’s unique aeroplane-shaped design (the ‘Pilot Plan’) has been enshrined as an UNESCO World Heritage Site. The original plan was to house 500,000 people along the curved ‘wings’ of the Pilot Plan, bisected by a road named the Rodoviárian Axis. Each block is designated for residential, commercial, or institutional use relative to the block’s…