15 Facts About Lucio Costa

Lucio Costa was born in Toulon, France, the son of Brazilian parents.

Lucio Costa's father Joaquim Ribeiro da Costa, from Salvador, Bahia, was a naval engineer, and his mother Alina Ferreira da Costa, was from Manaus, Amazonas.

Lucio Costa was educated at the Royal Grammar School, Newcastle upon Tyne, England, and at the College National in Montreux, Switzerland, until 1916, he graduated as an architect in 1924 from the National School of Fine Arts in Rio de Janeiro.

In 1930 Lucio Costa established a partnership with Russian-born Brazilian architect Gregori Warchavchik, and became the Director of the National School of Fine Arts where he had studied.

Lucio Costa joined the newly created SPHAN in 1937 under Rodrigo Melo Franco de Andrade.

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Lucio Costa became a figure associated with reconciling traditional Brazilian forms and construction techniques with international modernism, particularly the work of Le Corbusier.

Lucio Costa's works include the Brazilian pavilion at the New York World's Fair of 1939, the Parque Guinle residential complex in Rio of 1948, and the Hotel do Park Sao Clemente in Nova Friburgo of 1948.

The Liceu was affiliated with the Associacao Academica de Coimbra where Lucio Costa taught until 1966, and received a Medal of Merit from the Portuguese government.

Lucio Costa preferred the Portuguese colonial architecture of Colonial Brazil over that of any other time or ethnic group .

Lucio Costa used his political connections within the government to scrap the competition result and instead form a new design team headed by himself, the Roberto Brothers and a young architect who had been Lucio Costa's intern, Niemeyer.

Lucio Costa is best known for his urban plan for the city of Brasilia, located in Brazil's hinterland.

Lucio Costa won the job in a 1957 public competition in order to replace Rio de Janeiro as the capital of Brazil.

Lucio Costa envisioned these as the most important aspect of the design, as they would be home to a majority of the city's daily operations, such as local commerce, schools, recreation and churches.

Lucio Costa envisioned that they would have apartment buildings of a consistent modern style that housed both upper and middle classes, making integration a key theme of the city's design.

Lucio Costa hoped that by establishing this grid at the city's founding that future construction projects regarding traffic improvements could be avoided.