Documentaire tip; Brasilia: Life After Design

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Located 2 000 kilometres from the Amazon and 18 hours from Rio, the city of Brasília – the capital of Brazil – is a mythical place: a concrete utopia born out of the desert.

In 1956 at the rebirth of Brazilian democracy, visionary architect Oscar Niemeyer and urbanist Lúcio Costa invented an urban plan and structures that would attempt to micromanage the daily activity of human life. The unabashed goal was to create the space that would birth “the new Brazilian citizen”.

Now the stark beauty of the city acts as a backdrop to isolation, changing values, and the dynamic power and politics of today’s Brazil.

The haunting ambience of Niemeyer and Costa’s dream echoes through the lives of a range of characters, each trying to make their mark in the city of today: Sergio, the stalwart urbanist who defends the city plan but knows it must adapt; Helize, studying to become a federal civil servant – the dream of so many Brazilian students. And Willians, a street vendor by day, who tries to find meaningful connection in a city built to divide.

Brasilia: Life After Design takes us to a city rarely seen by the international viewer: what is it like to live in someone else’s idea?

 

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Fotoboek Brazilian Modernism

Afgelopen zomer heb ik in Brazilië niet alleen de Olympische Spelen bezocht, maar tevens heb ik een korte studiereis gemaakt langs de hoogtepunten van de Braziliaanse moderne architectuur in Brasília, Rio de Janeiro en Niterói.

Het onderstaande fotoboek is een beeldverslag van deze reis.

 

Dit boek is de tweede in een serie van drie. Het eerste boek was een beeldverslag van de Olympische Spelen in Rio de Janeiro (link). In de derde boek, die ik in de loop van deze maand online plaats, staat de stad Rio de Janeiro centraal.

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