In a well-known debate with Geraldo Ferraz in 1948, L cio Costa argued that modern architecture as practiced in Brazil only became truly interesting when the functional grounds of this new architecture - bequeathed to us by Le Corbusier - were incorporated and developed by the national genius. From then on - the argument goes -, we could actually be proud of an architecture that was authentically ours, deeply rooted in a tradition that went...
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