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​Brazil represents samba, football, and a tropical paradise. In the historiography of classic Western modern architecture, Brazilian Modern Architecture implies curves, tropical nature, and locality, suggesting a beautiful nature and a regional tradition untouched by external influences. The complex and diverse geographical and cultural reality of Brazil reminds us of the singularity and prejudice of this architectural aesthetic. But how did this architectural assessment come about, and why does it stand out as 'Brazilian modern architecture' in a global perspective? Why is there a connection between Brazilian modern architecture and the tropics? Which 'tropics' have attracted the interest of international architectural critics and historians? How does Brazilian and modern architecture fit together in historical codification and take their place in the aesthetics and history of architecture from a global perspective? If we critically re-examine the process of classicization of Brazilian modern architecture, can we clarify the delineation of this position and discover the aesthetic values that have been overlooked?

To revisit the history of Brazilian modern architecture, it is necessary to return to its aesthetic and artistic history and trace how European colonial artists 'defined' the 'beauty' and 'ugliness' of Brazil's territorial elements of land, climate, and water. This requires an extension of the study to the built environment, including dams, roads, and urban infrastructure, which form this kind of knowledge about 'Brazilian Modern Architecture.' Therefore, this study traces a process of specific architectural knowledge production. Through anthropology, human geography, and historical research, it examines the process by which global modern architecture and Brazilian territory intertwine to create a Brazilian architectural aesthetic from various aspects of territorial transformation. This presentation proposes the territorial sublime as an aesthetic of Brazilian modernity, exposing the roots of a single civilizational view of European Romantic nature in the understanding of Brazilian modern architecture and re-drawing its subliming power behind the romantic.