He succeeded only too well: both General Motors and Ford are building new factories near Porto Alegre, but on terms that have turned out to be political suicide for Mr Brito.

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The General Motors Technical Center, completed in 1954 outside of Detroit, was a 17-building complex of Miesian precision that flouted that modernist master's formal, neutral aesthetic with brilliant color and the use of neoprene gaskets to seal the windows, a technology borrowed from car windshields.

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