Latin America in Construction A model of Rogelio Salmona’s Torres del Parque in Bogotá, Colombia, from 1964-70, at the Museum of Modern Art.Credit Philip Greenberg for The New York Times

Some years ago I sat on the gusty, sun-drenched roof deck of a beachside hotel in Rio de Janeiro sipping ice tea with Maria Elisa Costa. A half-century earlier, her father, Lúcio Costa, had devised the master plan for Brasília, which is pretty much where a new, extraordinary exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, “Latin America in Construction: Architecture 1955-1980,” begins.A famous photograph from 1956 shows Brazil’s president, Juscelino Kubitschek, standing in the middle of an empty savanna, 400 miles from the nearest paved road. Four years later that spot would become the center of the new Brazilian capital.......Continue Reading

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