Name: EDITION29_BRASILIA

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  This collectable monograph is a CINEMATIC VISUAL look at the sculptural buildings of Brasilia made famous by architect OSCAR NIEMEYER. Photographed by renowned architectural photographer and architect LEONARDO FINOTTI. Many of the pages are set to motion to show the wide landscape of the buildings with audio commentary or music soundtrack that can be chosen to accompany the visual drama.

SET AUDIO TRACKS

By touching the Audio Button from the slide up menu, the user can choose from several audio tracks to set while leafing through the book. An interview with writer/curator Brooke Hodge on her take on Brasilia along with two cinematic music soundtracks from Valdi Sabev provide multiple ways to experience the visual narrative of Brasilia.

BOOKMARK

With over 50 pages of full page photographs , audio, and text there are several reasons to bookmark pages. From the slide up menu, touch the bookmark button to bookmark any page, touch the button again to slide the bookmark page down, or during browsing slide up the menu and touch the bookmak button to access bookmarks.

PAGE PLAYBACK

Several of the pages in BRASILIA are set in motion to show the wide views of the sculptural settings of the amazing architecture that defines BRASILIA. Once the pages stop moving, a button will appear on the top left side of the page which allow to rewind and re-experience the page in motion.

ABOUT THE CITY OF BRASILIA

In the early 60's the newly elected president of Brazil Juscelino Kubitschek commissioned three visionary builders with constructing a new modernist capital for Brazil. Principal architect Oscar Niemeyer, landscape architect Roberto Burle Marx and architect Lúcio Costa as the city planner set about to create a place that would vault Brazil into architecture history with the Modernist Utopian Vision that became BRASILIA, one of the greatest planned cities in the world.
  

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