From Rio to Brasília: Itamaraty Palace, transference and buildings

The Itamaraty Palace in Rio de Janeiro and Brasília belong to the group of buildings that make it possible to analyze the history of Brazil on the architecture-city-policy tripod. As this article argues, the two buildings were able to appropriate a certain domesticity characteristic of the first, originally a home of an affluent family of the imperial court, and to use it for institutional functions typical of a chancellery. When the federal capital was transferred to the Brazilian Central Plateau, that same domesticity was transferred to the new Palace as a defining element of part of the architectural project. This institution’s transit, its spatial relations until the construction of the chancellery in the new capital are the objectives of this analysis.

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