Arquitectura Internacional Del Movimiento Moderno

In 1956 the urban planner Lúcio Costa wins the contest to choose the new capital city at the center of the country, which would Brasilia, at the initiative of President Kubitschek, Oscar Niemeyer is invited to work on the project of the new capital. Niemeyer is in charge of building projects and Lúcio Costa's city plan and all the planning.
In a few months, Niemeyer designed dozens ofresidential, commercial and administrative. Including the residence of the President (Palácio da Alvorada), the National Congress (the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate), the Cathedral of Brasilia, the Itamaraty Palace, headquarters of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Federal Supreme Court building , the buildings of the ministries, and the seat of government, the Planalto Palace. The cathedral isconsidered particularly beautiful, with many modern symbolism.
Brasilia was designed, built and opened during the term of a presidential term, four years. The new capital was officially inaugurated on April 21, 1960. In 1962, Niemeyer was commissioned to organize the School of Architecture at the newly created University of Brasilia (UNB). In 1963 he was made ​​an honorary member of the AmericanInstitute of Architects in the United States, and in the same year Soviet wins peace, the Lenin Peace Prize.
Esplanade of Ministries, Brasilia D. F., 2006. Sample some of the works of Niemeyer: National Congress to the bottom and to the right the famous Cathedral of Brasilia and newer buildings of the National Museum and the National Library,
In 1964, he traveled to Israel for work and on hisreturn finds a completely different Brazil. In March President João Goulart's, which took power after the resignation of President-elect Jânio Quadros, who was ousted by a military coup.

After the partition of British India into India and Pakistan in 1947, the former British province of Punjab was also split between India and Pakistan. The Indian state of Punjab required a new capital city toreplace Lahore, which became part of Pakistan during the partition.[8] After several plans to make additions to existing cities were found to be unfeasible for various reasons, the decision to construct a new and planned city was undertaken. Of all the new town schemes in independent India, the Chandigarh project quickly assumed prime significance, because of the city's strategic location as wellas the personal interest of Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of independent India. Commissioned by Nehru to reflect the new nation's modern, progressive outlook, Chandigarh was designed by the French (born Swiss) architect and urban planner, Le Corbusier, in the 1950s. Le Corbusier was in fact the second architect of the city, after the initial master plan was prepared bythe American architect-planner Albert Mayer (planner) who was working with the Polish-born architect Matthew Nowicki.[citation needed]
Chandigarh hosts the largest of Le Corbusier's many Open Hand sculptures. Standing 26 meters high, the structure was designed to in the wind . The Open Hand (La Main Ouverte) is a recurring motif in Le Corbusier's architecture, a sign for him of "peace and reconciliation. It isopen to give and open to receive." It represents the give and take of ideas.

Tadao Ando, one of Japan's greatest living architects, likes to tell the
story of the stray dog, a stately akita, that wandered into his studio in
Osaka some 20 years ago, and decided to stay. "First, I thought I would
call her Kenzo Tange; but then I realised I couldn't kick Kenzo Tange
around. So I called her LeCorbusier instead."

Kenzo Tange, the most influential figure in post-war Japanese
architecture, who has died aged 91, was profoundly influenced by the work
of Le Corbusier. In turn, Tange's hugely impressive body of work was to
influence, indeed dominate, that of a younger generation of brilliant
young Japanese architects up to, and including, Ando.

If Tange began by imitating the...