I went to Brasília this past weekend, for the first time, to visit a friend, and was blown away by the architecture and the overall city planning. My friend and her husband took us everywhere in Brasília and gave us a good background on how the city was built and what Niemeyer, the architect, was thinking when he built it.

Here is a picture of a mock up of the city, as Niemeyer had it built:

I don’t know if you can tell by the picture, but it’s shaped like an airplane, and the wings are all sets of blocks with identical building and commercial streets within the blocks. Anyway, I’ll stop talking now and let you watch an interview with the man himself who is 103 and still works!! This is a great interview I would on The World’s Best Ever in Portuguese, with English subtitles.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d77I_5wHA_c