| dc.coverage.spatial | Site: Brasília, Centro-Oeste, Brazil | en_US |
| dc.coverage.temporal | 1957-1960 (creation) | en_US |
| dc.creator | Niemeyer, Oscar | en_US |
| dc.date | 1957-1960 | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2013-01-09T18:49:06Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2013-01-09T18:49:06Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1957-1960 | en_US |
| dc.identifier | 181171 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.other | archrefid: 2042 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/88153 | |
| dc.description | View of two housing structures placed back to back, depicting how circulation towers are found on elevations facing each other; Behind the construction of Brasília lay a monumental campaign to construct an entire city in the barren center of the country, hundreds of kilometers from any major city. Niemeyer and Lúcio Costa used it to test new concepts of city planning: streets without transit, buildings floating off the ground supported by columns and allowing the space underneath to be free and integrated with nature. The project also had a socialist ideology: in Brasília all the apartments would be owned by the government and rented to its employees. (This later changed in practice.) Both low-cost and luxury housing were built by the government in the central city area. The residential zones of the inner city are arranged into superquadras ("superblocks"), groups of apartment buildings along with a prescribed number and type of schools, retail stores, and open spaces. Source: Wikipedia; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page (accessed 7/13/2010) | en_US |
| dc.format.medium | reinforced concrete; steel; glass; tile | en_US |
| dc.rights | © Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc. | en_US |
| dc.subject | architecture | en_US |
| dc.subject | business, commerce and trade | en_US |
| dc.subject | cityscape | en_US |
| dc.subject | City planning | en_US |
| dc.subject | urban design | en_US |
| dc.subject | planned communities | en_US |
| dc.subject | Twentieth century | en_US |
| dc.subject | Modernist | en_US |
| dc.title | Superquadras | en_US |
| dc.type | image | en_US |
| dc.rights.access | Licensed for educational and research use by the MIT community only | en_US |
| dc.identifier.vendorcode | 1A1-NO-B-8-B1 | en_US |
| vra.culturalContext | Brazilian | en_US |
| vra.technique | construction (assembling) | en_US |
| vra.worktype | housing project | en_US |
| vra.worktype | apartment house | en_US |
| dc.contributor.display | Oscar Niemeyer (Brazilian architect, born 1907) | en_US |
