This April 21, Brasilia celebrates 65 years. To celebrate the date, the TV Brazil It has prepared a special program that rescues content about the capital, produced by the station over the last few years. THE Paths of the report This week recounts the history of the city, with its innovative urbanism, futuristic architecture and its own cultural identity.
Brasilia was born from the visionary dream of Juscelino Kubitschek, who saw in the construction of the new capital not only the fulfillment of a campaign promise, but the materialization of progress.
Lúcio Costa drew a city -shaped city, integrated with nature and thought for the future. Oscar Niemeyer’s traits were in the way of iconic monuments, such as the National Congress, the Cathedral and the Dawn Palace. To complete the landscape, Athos Bulcão’s tiles brought color, movement and visual identity to the city, transforming Brasilia into a true open -air work.
Air image of the Catetinho Area – Photo: National Public Archive/Disclosure
More than a political center, Brasilia is a manifesto of Brazilian creativity.
Even before the creation of Brasilia, there was already the promise of Lake Paranoá.
“When they made the public contest for the Pilot Plan of the New Capital of Brazil, the lake was already designed,” explained Frederico Flósculo, in the documentary Paranoá: Sky Mirrorproduced and displayed by TV Brazilin 2015. The documentary tells how was the process of building the dam and lake, which is artificial and is 40 kilometers long.
In 1979, almost 20 years after the inauguration, Brasilia was present, by the hands of conductor Claudio Santoro, the city’s Symphony Orchestra. The Paths of the report also rescues an episode aired in 2024, which tells how the first years of the orchestra were, which would later be called the Symphony Orchestra of the National Theater Claudio Santoro, in honor of the conductor.
Clinaura Macêdo, retired violinist of the orchestra, points out the prestige Santoro had and how he was able to take big names to play in Brasilia.
“During this period, still in 1979, the Orchestra Nasting, Jacques Klein came to us. It was one of the most important pianists in Brazil, internationally recognized. In 1980, came Nelson Freire, one of the five most important pianists in the world. He also came Jean-Pierre Rampal, the world’s largest flutist, and three composers of Brazil’s first level: Guarneri, Guero Peixe and Francisco Mignone ”.
Santoro also played a fundamental role in the creation of the Department of Music of the University of Brasilia. Invited by Darcy Ribeiro, he structured an innovative music course, aligned with the avant -garde spirit of UnB.
Brasília 65 years, by national public archive/disclosure
Among the big names who participated in the implementation of Brasilia is also Athos Bulcão. The artist, known for his geometric tile panels, worked in collaboration with Oscar Niemeyer. The contours of Niemeyer’s architecture found harmony with the traces and delicacy of the art of Bulcão.
In 1958, 2 years before the inauguration of the capital, Athos had already created his first work. The Church of Our Lady of Fatima, better known as Igrejinha, was erected at the request of Dona Sarah Kubitschekin thanks for the healing of his daughter, who had had a serious illness.
Church Our Lady of Fatima – Fabio Rodrigues-Pozzebom/ Agência Brasil
Ronaldo Fraga, stylist, says that when Niemeyer asked Athos the tiles for the church, The artist would have said that “Brazil already has too oppressive churches”.
“I wanted this church to have the magic of a night of St. John,” says Fraga, who describes the church as a pearl of Brazilian architecture.
One cannot speak of Brasilia and fails to cite the gardens of Burle Marx, which transform modernist concrete into a living landscape and give soul to the city. Invited by Niemeyer and Lúcio Costa, he was responsible for the landscaping of several iconic spaces of the capital. Its gardens, characterized by the use of native vegetation of the Cerrado, have organic curves and contrasts of color and textures, bringing the landscaping as an element of human experience.
THE Paths of the report airs this Monday, at 23h, in TV Brazil.
Data Sheet:
Production: Patrícia Aráujo
Text Editing: Marieta Cazarré
Image edition: André Eustáquio
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Documentary Paranoá: Sky Mirror – 2015
Paths of the Santoro orchestra report: 45 years of stories and longing – 2024
Paths of Reporting Athos de Arte – 2018
Paths of the report Sitio Roberto Burle Marx, a legacy for humanity – 2021
Paths of the Brazilian Multique Report – 2012
