Brasilia ( In English)

In 1956, Brazil made a decision that the world deemed sheer madness: to build an entire capital city from scratch—in the middle of nowhere—in less than four years.Behind the project stood President Juscelino Kubitschek, with an impossible promise—fifty years of progress in five—and two geniuses: architect Oscar Niemeyer and urban planner Lúcio Costa, who designed a city shaped like an airplane that defied every convention of modern urbanism.But Brasília has two faces: that of the concrete palaces and impossible curves... and that of the *candangos*—the thousands of migrant workers who built the city with their own hands, only to be cast out to the outskirts when the cameras arrived for the inauguration.A real-life utopia, with all its glories and all its shadows. That is Brasília. And that is what we are going to talk about today.Welcome.