ABSTRACT
In Brazil, the principles of modernist mass housing are painted in golden letters on the country’s flag. Ordem e progresso—”order and progress”—was the promise on which the Brazilian Republic was built in 1889, and for a long time the slogan also inspired national policy. The most famous outcome of this attitude, the city of Brasília, stands out as one of the largest number of residential slabs built in the twentieth century, and at the same time, modernism’s most radical project.
