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Cathedral of Brasília
Oscar Niemeyer · 1970
Brazil
The largest experiment in mixing the world has run, still running.
- 6
- in design
- 8:45
- average
- 52 min
- in total
All briefs
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Paulo Mendes da Rocha
Concrete was his civic tool—not his style, not his signature, not his philosophy.
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Sergio Rodrigues (architect)
Rodrigues didn’t design chairs—he designed authority over what sat in Brasília.
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Lúcio Costa
A jury chose Costa’s sketch over detailed rivals — not for precision, but for scalability.
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Oscar Niemeyer
Niemeyer didn’t bend concrete—he bent architectural dogma, then left function behind.