Upper courtyard. Photographer unknown. 1939. Print, Arqtexto no. 16.











“What we want is the rigorous application of modern techniques… but all of this is guided and controlled, in both the whole building and its details, by the constant desire to produce a work of plastic art in the purest sense of expression. Painting and sculpture come naturally, each in its place in architecture, thus understood, not as simple ornaments or decorative elements, but with autonomous artistic value, integrated into the composition.” 33
                                                                                                                     - Lucio Costa