"Brazil Built is an examination of the architecture of the Modern Movement in Brazil. In the 1940s and 1950s, Brazil acquired unprecedented prestige in the world of Modern Architecture. Brazil was regarded as the country which had inherited the progressive Modernism of the pre-war period in Europe, and which, furthermore, had initiated a new phase of the assimilation of cultural and environmental considerations. The major buildings - the Ministry of Education, the Brazilian Pavilion at the New York World's Fair 1939, the Brazilian Press Association, Santos Dumont Airport, the Pampulha complex - became widely known and highly influential, launched by the exhibition 'Brazil Builds' at the Museum of Modern Art, New York in 1943 and the publications of Brazil Builds."

"The book constitutes a unique presentation of the major Modern buildings in Brazil in their historical context. Prompted by the contemporary revaluation of Modernism and the renewed interest in Brazil, this book examines how the buildings came into being, how they came to be so highly regarded, and the changing reactions to them in Brazil and abroad."--Jacket