Description: Extracts from project “Tropical Brutalism”
Inspired by the shapes of space, infrared photography is used to capture Brasília through the embodiment of Yuri Gagarin’s first impressions of the city: “I feel I have just disembarked upon another planet, not Earth”
An architectural playground, Brasília was born as a planned capital in the depths of the Brazilian cerrado habitat. It is moulded by strange shapes and forms that easily appear extraterrestrial at times...
