Brasilia as it is; and Brasília as it could have been. This is the reflection that the public can make when visiting, at the Três Poderes Cultural Center in the federal capital, the Pantheon of Pátria and Liberdade Tancredo Neves, where the exhibition Another Brasília Never Again – An Exhibition in Reality is on display until December 16 Augmented.
It contains the seven finalist projects that, between 1956 and 1957, competed in the Novacap National Contest that defined the lines of the city that Juscelino Kubitschek would build in the following years.
The seven urban proposals for the construction of Brasília make it possible for the public to imagine what the future would be like if the project designed by Lúcio Costa, for a city in the shape of an airplane, had not won the competition.
The exhibition will feature replicas of the projects that present what “other Brasílias” would be like, including in 3D. There will also be explanatory audios in Portuguese and English, as well as texts and drawings in Braille, and audio description resources. Architecture students from the University of Brasília (UnB) will be at the site to support the visitation.
According to the organizers of the exhibition, which is curated by the architect and urban planner Pedro Daldegan, the notice prepared at the time by Novacap “was not very demanding as to the technical justification of the proposals, requesting only a basic layout of the city with the location of the main facilities and a descriptive memorial”.
Therefore, all 26 projects presented, at some point, the thinking of the French-Swiss architect Le Corbusier (pseudonym of Charles-Edouard Jeanneret-Gris), who defended the “priority of socioeconomic issues in the design of a city”.
The judging committee then ended up classifying seven competitors, organizing them by “common virtues”. Lúcio Costa was the winner; one was vice (Boruch Milman); two were in third place (Levi and the office MMM Roberto), while the other three were in fifth place.
Daldegan, who is also a director, screenwriter and set designer, considers the decision of the competition jury, which divided the five awards with the seven finalist plans, “happy”. “It was a way of contemplating the great names of modern Brazilian architecture”, he said, recalling that Lúcio Costa’s proposal “was almost unanimous among the national and international jury”.
The curator recalls that, in 1987, the entire architectural complex was recognized by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (Unesco) as a Cultural and Natural Heritage of Humanity. “It was recognized for the relationships between the four urban scales: monumental, residential, bucolic and gregarious, in addition to its innovative architecture.”
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