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Lúcio Costa

1902 - 1998

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Lúcio Marçal Ferreira Ribeiro Lima Costa (27 February 1902 – 13 June 1998) was a Brazilian architect and urban planner, best known for his plan for Brasília. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lúcio Costa has received more than 160,516 page views. His biography is available in 39 different languages on Wikipedia. Lúcio Costa is the 109th most popular architect (down from 106th in 2019), the 1,247th most popular biography from France (down from 1,203rd in 2019) and the 17th most popular French Architect.

Lúcio Costa was a Brazilian architect and urban planner. He is most famous for designing Brasília, the capital of Brazil.

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  • 39

    Languages Editions (L)

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  • 2.81

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Among ARCHITECTS

Among architects, Lúcio Costa ranks 109 out of 518. Before him are Filarete, Hannes Meyer, Luis Barragán, Aino Aalto, Auguste Perret, and Ricardo Bofill. After him are Albert Speer, Hans Hollein, Philip Johnson, Francesco di Giorgio Martini, Baldassare Longhena, and Eileen Gray.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1902, Lúcio Costa ranks 48. Before him are Alexandre Kojève, Felix Wankel, Max Ophüls, Princess Mafalda of Savoy, Antonia Brico, and Luis Barragán. After him are George Ostrogorsky, Pascual Jordan, Oskar Morgenstern, Wilhelm Stuckart, Mohammad Hatta, and Carlo Gambino. Among people deceased in 1998, Lúcio Costa ranks 30. Before him are Otto Kretschmer, Allan MacLeod Cormack, Linda McCartney, Alfred Schnittke, George H. Hitchings, and André Weil. After him are Kenichi Fukui, Galina Ulanova, Bob Kane, Derek Barton, Nelson Goodman, and Florence Griffith Joyner.

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In France

Among people born in France, Lúcio Costa ranks 1,247 out of 6,770. Before him are Michel Fourniret (1942), Marie Anne de Mailly (1717), Jean Giono (1895), Alain Poher (1909), Gérard Genette (1930), and Charles Boyer (1899). After him are Emmanuelle Béart (1963), Victor Noir (1848), Robert Badinter (1928), Anthony, Duke of Brabant (1384), Charles Alexandre de Calonne (1734), and Didier Pironi (1952).

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Among ARCHITECTS In France

Among architects born in France, Lúcio Costa ranks 17. Before him are Hector Guimard (1867), Claude Perrault (1613), Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli (1700), Claude Nicolas Ledoux (1736), Ange-Jacques Gabriel (1698), and Étienne-Louis Boullée (1728). After him are Jacques-Germain Soufflot (1713), Charlotte Perriand (1903), Philibert de l'Orme (1514), Jean Chalgrin (1739), Paul Abadie (1812), and Jacques-François Blondel (1705).

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