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José da Costa e Silva

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Nationality
  
Portuguese

Role
  
Architect

Name
  
Jose Costa

Design
  
Neoclassical

Occupation
  
Architect


Jose da Costa e Silva

Born
  
25 July 1747
Vila Franca de Xira, Portugal

Died
  
1819, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Projects
  
Teatro Nacional de Sao Carlos, Lisbon, Teatro Joao Caetano

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Structures
  
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José da Costa e Silva (1747–1819) was a Portuguese architect. His work helped establish Neoclassical architecture in Portugal and colonial Brazil.

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Costa e Silva studied architecture in Rome, where he had contact with Italian Neoclassicism. He later became Royal architect, and headed several important projects in Portugal. Among his most important works are the Royal Theatre of São Carlos (1792) in Lisbon and the Military Hospital (1792) near Torres Vedras. He is also believed to be the author of Seteais Palace (1801) in Sintra. In Lisbon, Costa e Silva and the Italian Francisco Xavier Fabri created the project for the Royal Palace of Ajuda (after 1802), which was however too grandiose and could not be completed.

In 1807, Costa e Silva went to Brazil together with John VI and the Portuguese court, which had to escape the invasion of Portugal by Napoleonic troops. In Rio de Janeiro, which became capital of the Portuguese Empire, Costa e Silva designed an opera house in Neoclassical style. This opera house, called Royal Theatre of St John and modelled after the São Carlos of Lisbon, was one of the first Neoclassical buildings in Brazilian soil. It was later destroyed in a fire.

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