Oscar Niemeyer, Israel Pinheiro and Juscelino Kubitscheck

The capital’s relocation from the coast to the interior was not the result of a recent idea. Since the eighteenth century, the transfer of the administrative center to a strategically more protected region had been idealized by people who gradually turned the dream into a foreseeable goal. When Juscelino Kubitschek took office as president in 1956, he had this same ideal and, above all, a strong commitment to accomplish what would become his most important political project: the construction of Brasilia.