Lucio Costa's urbanistics in the revision of the modern

the project of the Capital of Nigeria and its relation with Brasilia

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18830/1679-09442024v17e45868

Keywords:

Capital of Nigeria, Lucio Costa, Urbanism, Modern, Postmodern

Abstract

From the 1950s onwards, a critical review began to problematize modern urban concepts, provoking a change in the situation by adding open models of varied urban expressions to the rationalist movement. Issues such as environmental and topographic pre-existence, vernacular architecture, the expressiveness of organic and sculptural architectural forms, the recipient's participation and other factors prevailed in urban methodologies leading to formal changes. The analysis of the urban design of the capital of Nigeria by the architect Lucio Costa, carried out in 1976, aims to evaluate the proposal within the debate of the revision of the modern movement. Initially, the article presents the context of the review in the international scope and, later, the definitions of the urban project of the capital of Nigeria. The Nigerian capital project was used as support for analysis, as well as its own documentation, the comparative study with the morphology of the Pilot Plan of Brasilia and issues related to the revision. By checking Lucio Costa's project, it is possible to identify which part of the issues of the modern revision were incorporated into the formulation of the urban proposal for the capital of Nigeria.

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Carla Conceição Barreto, Universidade do Porto; Faculdade de Arquitectura da Universidade do Porto; Centro de Estudos de Arquitetura e Urbanismo.

PhD candidate in the Doctoral Program in Architecture (PDA) at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto (FAUP). Researcher at the Center for Architecture and Urbanism Studies (CEAU-FAUP). Scholarship recipient from the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) for doctoral research. Master's degree in Contemporary Art from the Programa de Pós-Graduação em Artes Visuais (PPGAV-UnB). Bachelor's degree in Visual Arts (2007), Bachelor's degree in Visual Arts (2008), and Architecture and Urbanism from the University of Brasília (2018). Worked as a Professor in the field of Interior Design and Architecture with research in Theory and History of architecture, furniture, and interior spaces, and in the area of Theory and History of Art. Coordinated the undergraduate and postgraduate programs in Faculdade de Artes Dulcina de Moraes. Carla Barreto has teaching experience in higher education in the following institutions: University of Brasília, Centro de Ensino Unificado de Brasília, and Faculdade de Artes Dulcina de Moraes.

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2024-03-19

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Conceição Barreto, C. (2024). Lucio Costa’s urbanistics in the revision of the modern: the project of the Capital of Nigeria and its relation with Brasilia. Paranoá, 17, e45868. https://doi.org/10.18830/1679-09442024v17e45868

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Landscapes of Power: Design, Architecture and Urbanism in Capital Cities

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