Discover the similarities and differences between Brasília and Chandigarh, two cities built according to the principles of ...

Two years ago a brilliant Brazilian architect took on one of the world’s most exciting assignments in art: to design the palaces, public buildings, courthouses, churches—even the yacht club—of a whole ...

BRASILIA — Fans from all around the world come to Brazil for soccer and tourism. Among the 12 venues for the FIFA World Cup, one is unique: Brasilia. Built 50 years ago in the country's central ...

You don't have to be an architecture expert to have heard of Brasilia. Contemporary Brazil's renowned capital was purpose-built in 1960, featuring a grand urban plan by Lúcio Costa, Oscar Niemeyer as ...

Brasilia, the capital of Brazil, completed its construction in 1960 with the intent of using modernist architecture as a tool to forge a futuristic utopian society. The city was designed around urban ...

The four-building church sits just off one of the main components of the city's radio-centric road system. The complex includes an existing church building, a linear annex, a floating disk nave, and a ...

Few places in the world offer such an expansive, extraordinary composition of Modernist architecture as the Brazilian capital. Part of a handful of Modernist clusters around the world – such as, for ...

As thousands of supporters of Brazil’s former president Jair Bolsonaro stormed the nation’s capital Sunday, Brasília’s modernist architecture created a striking backdrop to the chaos. The city, ...

On Jan. 8, supporters of former President Jair Bolsonaro pushed past police barricades and stormed Brazil’s Presidential Palace, Congress, and Supreme Court in the capital city of Brasília, ...

Brazilian studio Bloco Arquitetos has stripped back an apartment in Brasília built in the 1960s and added in translucent glass to reveal the existing concrete block facade. 308 S apartment is located ...

SOME COUPLES spend holidays on beaches. My husband and I bond over journeys to often-barren areas, visiting works by mostly dead architects. When we were engaged in Rio de Janeiro 17 years ago, we ...