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" ... The history of Brasilia is especially revealing. While the dichotomy between stately civic buildings and surrounding slums is relatively well known, few non-specialists will have seen the competing plans for Brasilia now on view at MoMA, and fewer still will be familiar with the debate they inspired when Brasilia was founded. Probably the most notable competing plan was submitted by João Batista Vilanova Artigas, a modernist architect who prioritized effective housing over the view from on high. The Latin-American magazine Habitat contrasted Artigas's "severe morality" with the "plastic complacencies" of Costa's sculptural city. Elsewhere Latin-American critics griped about Brasilia's "profligate opulence." ... "