Brasilia

+ 36

• Architect

  Esquadra Arquitetos, Yi Arquitetos

• Location

  Brasilia, Brazil

• Authors

  Filipe Monte Serrat, Camilo de Lannoy

• Team

  Manuela Dantas, Silvana Moraes, Carolina Dumay, Raquel Alves

• Area

  370.0 m2

• Project Year

  2014

• Photographs

  Joana França

+ 25

• Architects

  Bloco Arquitetos

• Location

  Brasília, Brazil

• Authors

  Daniel Mangabeira, Henrique Coutinho, Matheus Seco

• Architect in Charge

  Matheus Seco

• Collaborators

  Giovanni Cristovaro, Fernando Longhi

• Area

  160.0 m2

• Project Year

  2017

• Photographs

  Joana França

+ 14

• Architects

  Ney Lima

• Location

  Brasília, Brazil

• Architect in Charge

  Ney Lima

• Team

  Studio Ney Lima

• Area

  696.5 m2

• Project Year

  2015

• Photographs

  Edgard César

Brazilian planner, preservationist and modernist thinker Lúcio Costa  (27 Feburary 1902 – 13 June 1998) is best known for his 1957 plan of Brasília that shaped the Brazilian capital into a monument to utopian modernism. A resolute and often controversial figure in the Brazilian establishment, Costa’s contributions to Brazilian architecture helped to shape the distinctive modernism that was practically Brazil’s official style until the 1980s.

+ 8

+ 53

• Architects

  CoDA arquitetos

• Location

  SIA trecho 17, rua 40, lotes 125/145, Brasília-DF - Brasil

• Architect in Charge

  Alberto Uno

• Area

  1700.0 m2

• Project Year

  2011

• Photographs

  Joana França, Aníbal Fontoura

+ 25

• Architects

  Debaixo do Bloco Arquitetura

• Location

  Brasília - Brasilia, Federal District, Brazil

• Architect

  Clay Rodrigues

• Area

  105.0 m2

• Project Year

  2017

• Photographs

  Haruo Mikami

+ 20

• Architects

  BLOCO Arquitetos

• Location

  Brasília, Brazil

• Area

  310.0 m2

• Project Year

  2017

• Photographs

  Haruo Mikami

If you haven't gotten a chance to visit Brasília, Joana França's photographic projects offer a comprehensive interpretation of the capital of South America's most populous country. França has dedicated a significant part of her career as an architecture photographer to the pursuit of amassing an impressive archive of images of the city planned by Lúcio Costa and Oscar Niemeyer.

We recently published an exceptional selection França's aerial photographs of Brasília divided by scale - residential, monumental, gregarious and bucolic. These overhead views solidify what, in theory, is already evident: the city lacks human scale, or the human scale of Brasília is just vast and (perhaps) not very human at all. 

+ 24

• Architects

  BLOCO Arquitetos

• Location

  Brasilia, Brazil

• Architects in Charge

  Daniel Mangabeira, Henrique Coutinho e Matheus Seco

• Area

  180.0 m2

• Project Year

  2017

• Photographs

  Haruo Mikami

"What characterizes and gives meaning to Brasilia is a game of three scales... the residential or everyday scale... the so-called monumental scale, in which man acquires a collective dimension; the urbanistic expression of a new concept of nobility... Finally the gregarious scale, in which dimensions and space are deliberately reduced and concentrated in order to create a climate conducive to grouping... We can also add another fourth scale, the bucolic scale of open areas intended for lakeside retreats or weekends in the countryside." - Lucio Costa in an interview with Jornal do Brasil, November 8, 1961.

Photographer Joana França shared with us an impressive series of aerial photographs of the national capital of Brazil, Brasilia. The photoset is divided into four sub-series each presenting a scale: residential, monumental, gregarious and bucolic.

+ 30

• Architects

  BLOCO Arquitetos

• Location

  Brasilia, Brazil

• Authors

  Daniel Mangabeira, Henrique Coutinho, Matheus Seco

• Team

  Tatiana Lopes, Victor Machado, Guilherme Mahana, Marina Lira

• Area

  298.0 m2

• Project Year

  2017

• Photographs

  Haruo Mikami

+ 24

• Architects

  BLOCO Arquitetos

• Localization

  Brasília, Federal District, Brazil

• Arquitetos Responsáveis

  Daniel Mangabeira, Henrique Coutinho, Matheus Seco

• Area

  262.0 m2

• Project Year

  2016

+ 7

Last year I had the opportunity to visit Studio Gang, one of the most prestigious and inspiring firms around led by architect Jeanne Gang. I was able to talk with her team about the workspace, some of her projects, about the future of architecture, the role of women in the profession and even about the inspirations behind the United States Embassy in Brasilia.

This article is part of our new series "Material in Focus", where we ask architects to share with us their creative process through the choice of materials that define important parts of the construction of their buildings.

The architecture of Casa 28 shows itself as an extension of the arid and exuberant landscape of the Cerrado. A variety of perspectives unfolds as you walk through the house. A family looking for tranquility and connection with nature commissioned this urban refuge located 10 minutes from the National Congress in Brasilia. The elements have different heights that confirm a spatial hierarchy. Extensive walls, coated with polymeric mortar, define fluid spaces and openings placed in all directions integrate cohabitating areas. We talked with architect Samuel Lamas from Equipe Lamas to learn more about the choices of materials used in the project and the influence these choices had on the design concept. Read the interview below:

+ 22