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Hitler's chief architect, Albert Speer, oversaw Prora's design competition, which was won by Clemens Klotz - more on the strength of his party connections than his architectural talent. Nazi architecture tended towards either monumental classical modernism - such as Speer's famous Nuremberg grounds - or the folksy, resolutely German Heimatstil. But Prora is neither of these. Its precedents were modernism's bold experiments with the "linear city", in which all urban functions were organised into an infinitely extensible system, leaving clear landscape on either side. Ivan Leonidov proposed such a plan for the Russian mining town of Magnitogorsk, as did Le Corbusier with his Plan Obus design for Algiers. In practical terms these ideas were almost science fiction but Prora made them real. Behind the hotel block would have been a mini town of sanctioned leisure facilities: gymnasium and swimming pool; concert hall; movie theatre, and as the centrepiece, a festivity hall large enough for all 20,000 visitors. Tellingly the latter was handled by a dif ferent architect, Erich zu Putlitz, in a stripped-down classical style more in keeping with Nazi tastes.

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Like his mentors, Niemeyer was a Modernist. Modernist architects strove to create disorientating environments that were self-contained and separate from their surroundings. Like the painters they associated with, they attempted to shock people into reevaluating their middle-class world view. Le Corbusier, one of the founders of the movement, tried to achieve this effect through the creation of what he called "Radiant Cities," made up of homogeneous concrete slab buildings which sat on columns, surrounded by parkland and ribboned with superhighways. Architects around the world incorporated modernist principles into their projects for the next several decades, but no one was able to build an entire radiant city. Then, in 1956, the President of Brazil, Jucilino Kubitchek, announced that he was going to commission the building of a new capital in a desolate area of rolling scrubland. Urban planner Lucio Costa won the bid and Oscar Niemeyer was commissioned as the chief architect.


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