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Date

5-1974

Description

Looking west down Brasilia’s Monumental Axis Smolski capture’s an array of modernist architecture. Of note, to the left is Correios, the national headquarters for Brazil’s postal service. Prominent in the center right of the photograph is Brasilia’s TV Tower, completed in 1967. The structures that are shown in front of the tower seem to have been demolished sometime between the taking of this photograph (1974) and the present. Brasilia is a planned city, inaugurated in 1960, it is considered a masterpiece of modernist architecture. The city is built in the shape of a bird, or aircraft. The Monumental Axis, as seen in this photograph, is the fuselage, or body of the bird.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brasilia_TV_Tower

http://wikitravel.org/en/Bras%C3%ADlia#b

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monumental_Axis

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bras%C3%ADlia

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This object from the Chester E. Smolski photographic slides and publications, housed by the Rhode Island College Special Collections, and any of its digital surrogates are the intellectual property of Rhode Island College. This digital object is protected by copyright and/or related rights. The digital material presented here is licensed with a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. This content can be used, shared, or adapted for educational and scholarly purposes. For permissions to use this item please contact digitalcommons@ric.edu. All uses must include appropriate attribution.

Creator 1 Role

Photographer

Creator 2 Dates

1902 - 1998

Creator 2 Role

Urban Planner

Creator 3 Dates

1907 -

Creator 3 Role

Architect

Recommended Citation

Chester E. Smolski photographic slides and publications, MSS-0041, Special Collections, James P. Adams Library, Rhode Island College.

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Keywords

city planning; cityscape; downtown; land use; urban planing; Brasilia; Brazil;

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