Building Brasília

Here's a clip taken from a longer 1960s US documentary film on Brazil – this section here concerns itself with the building of Brasília, the modernist city. The city was planned by Lúcio Costa and Oscar Niemeyer. There's lots of footage of three of Niemeyer's most famous landmarks: the towering National Congress of Brazil, the extravagant Palácio da Alvorada and Metropolitan Cathedral of Our Lady of Aparecida.





Ignore the terrible, patrician and vaguely racist commentary, on the 'primitive peop...