BRAZIL · 1968

Brasilia, Contradictions of a New City

Joaquim Pedro de Andrade
Cinema Novo Brazil urban planning Brazilian modernism social inequality architectural utopia interior development
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In 1967, de Andrade was invited by the Italian company Olivetti to produce a documentary on the new Brazilian capital city of Brasília. Constructed during the latter half of the 1950s and founded in 1960, the city was part of an effort to populate Brazil’s vast interior region and was to be the embodiment of democratic urban planning, free from the class divisions and inequalities that characteriz

Year1968
CountryBrazil
DirectorJoaquim Pedro de Andrade
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