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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 148,987 page views. His biography is available in 39 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 37 in 2019). Lúcio Costa is the 107th most popular architect (down from 105th in 2019), the 1,207th most popular biography from France (down from 1,130th in 2019) and the 16th 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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  • 60.69

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 39

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.10

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.88

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among ARCHITECTS

Among architects, Lúcio Costa ranks 107 out of 424. Before him are Pierre Lescot, Pier Luigi Nervi, Auguste Perret, Eileen Gray, César Pelli, and Étienne-Louis Boullée. After him are Bartolomeo Ammannati, Ange-Jacques Gabriel, Hannes Meyer, Francesco di Giorgio Martini, Antonio da Sangallo the Younger, and Amenhotep, son of Hapu.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1902, Lúcio Costa ranks 47. Before him are Alexandre Kojève, Günther Anders, Luis Barragán, Princess Mafalda of Savoy, Prince George, Duke of Kent, and Menachem Mendel Schneerson. After him are Max Ophüls, David O. Selznick, George Ostrogorsky, Carlo Levi, E. E. Evans-Pritchard, and Anatole Litvak. Among people deceased in 1998, Lúcio Costa ranks 31. Before him are George H. Hitchings, Galina Ulanova, Martha Gellhorn, Alan Hodgkin, Conrad Schumann, and Julien Green. After him are Alan J. Pakula, David McClelland, André Weil, Otto Wichterle, Linda McCartney, and Florence Griffith Joyner.

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In France

Among people born in France, Lúcio Costa ranks 1,207 out of 6,011. Before him are Sonia Rykiel (1930), Gérard Mourou (1944), Louis Jourdan (1921), Bon-Adrien Jeannot de Moncey (1754), Robert de Montesquiou (1855), and Maurice Ronet (1927). After him are Paul Sérusier (1864), Jean Bart (1650), Guy, Count of Flanders (1226), Walter Sans Avoir (1050), Samy Naceri (1961), and Jane Frances de Chantal (1572).

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Among ARCHITECTS In France

Among architects born in France, Lúcio Costa ranks 16. Before him are Ferdinand Cheval (1836), Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli (1700), Claude Nicolas Ledoux (1736), Claude Perrault (1613), Pierre Lescot (1515), and Étienne-Louis Boullée (1728). After him are Ange-Jacques Gabriel (1698), Jacques-Germain Soufflot (1713), Paul Abadie (1812), Philibert de l'Orme (1514), Jean Chalgrin (1739), and Charlotte Perriand (1903).

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