Lúcio Costa
Lúcio Marçal Ferreira Ribeiro Lima Costa (born February 27, 1902 in Toulon , † June 13, 1998 in Rio de Janeiro ) was a Brazilian architect and urban planner .
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After childhood and youth in Europe, Costa moved to Brazil, where in 1924 he graduated from the University of Fine Arts in Rio de Janeiro - of which he himself became director in 1930 - as an architect.
Costa was a supporter of Le Corbusier's modern style , which he wanted to combine with traditional elements of Brazilian architecture. He demonstrated his leading role in Brazilian modern architecture through the Brazil Pavilion at the New York World's Fair of 1939 (together with Oscar Niemeyer ), the Parque Guinle residential area in Rio in 1948 and the Hotel do Park São Clemente in Nova Friburgo .
He was best known for the plan to build the new Brazilian capital, Brasília , for which he was appointed in 1957. He named it Plano Piloto ( German master plan ). The detailed planning of the buildings was again carried out by Oscar Niemeyer, but Costa also reserved the planning of numerous details, including the color of the uniforms of the bus drivers (dark gray). Differences between the two chief planners were not absent, but the realization of this planned capital succeeded in an astonishingly short time , which was handed over as “turnkey” in 1960 and inaugurated by President Juscelino Kubitschek . The university and cathedral were added in 1962, the Brasília television tower in 1967 , the city park in 1978 and the central bank in 1981. Since 1987, the center is part of the World Heritage of UNESCO and since 2001 has Brasilia, which has today in the metropolitan area nearly 3 million inhabitants, over a subway .
The city is a symbol of progress and has an impressive ensemble of public buildings, especially in the government district at the “pilot's pulpit”, but at the same time the lack of history and coldness of this drawing board city is often criticized.
Web links
- Literature by and about Lúcio Costa in the catalog of the German National Library
- Website for Lúcio Costa (Portuguese)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Costa, Lúcio |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Costa, Lúcio Marçal Ferreira Ribeiro Lima (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Brazilian architect and urban planner |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 27, 1902 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Toulon |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 13, 1998 |
| Place of death | Rio de Janeiro |