Terrorism

The terrorist acts of January 2023 destroyed part of Brazilian heritage while raising questions beyond objects and architecture.

[Brazil](https://www.archdaily.com/tag/brazil), more recently, we have seen popular acts against Brazilian symbols, such as the Statue of Borba Gato set on fire in São Paulo because it represents the slavery and genocidal structure of Brazilian society. In the case of [Brasilia](https://www.archdaily.com/tag/brasilia), terrorists used these same tools to destroy heritage, however, without popular struggle, with a dispersed and mistaken political proposal motivated by hate speech and misinformation. These acts reveal a fundamental need to rebuild basic education, ensuring everyone's access to knowledge, information and national culture in a diverse, broad and democratic way based on public policies aimed at the population. The democratic game includes manifests, acts, and marches, including intense acts that can be seen as instruments of protest and revolution, such as the depredation of objects and places. In it, the buildings of the executive power, which operates in the Planalto Palace, the judiciary, active in the Palace of Justice, and the legislative, which works within the National Congress, are placed facing each other from one corner to the other of the monumental Three Powers Plaza. [Brazil](https://www.archdaily.com/tag/brazil), and any act of attack on these symbols carries meanings and consequences for Brazilian memory and cultural heritage. In each building, the glass transparency is just one of the symbols used by Niemeyer to represent the strength and presence of these powers. Politically, it is a city that was built from the discourse of democracy and transparency. As a space and object, it is a landmark of modernism and Brazilian architecture. Even so, [Brasilia](https://www.archdaily.com/tag/brasilia) is today the symbol of the Brazilian republic, and its architecture is the place where the three powers act to guarantee the democratic state of law. Even so, its architecture symbolizes the Republic and democracy of A landmark of modern architecture, Brasilia's urban project was designed by Lucio Costa, and its buildings were signed by Oscar Niemeyer.