Mosso Lar. Brasilia.Spiritism, Modernism, Architecture

Nosso Lar, Brasília explores the relationship between Spiritism and Modernism in Brazilian architecture. Central to the book is a systematic comparison between the spiritist city of Nosso Lar (1944), as described by the medium Chico Xavier; and the modernist city of Brasília (1956), the country´s capital as designed by Lúcio Costa and Oscar Niemeyer.