lowered ground (“Chão de Flores”) or Popular Brazilian Architecture

In the late 1950s, in the middle of the Central Plateau, Brazil built a new capital in just three years. In the following decades, Brasília would become the main symbol of modernist architecture in the world and the only city built in the 20th century to be declared a Historical and Cultural Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO. Born from a dream that has its origins in the 17th century, Brasília is the urban expression of the aspirations of Brazilians, who from North to South of the country went there to build it and live there.