Niemeyer

by Philip Jodidio

The man who built the Seven decades of work from the Brazilian visionary On the occasion of Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer ’s 100th anniversary, the New York Times wrote, "In the 1940s, ’50s and ’60s he established himself as one of Modernism’s greatest luminaries, infusing stark abstract forms with a beguiling tropical hedonism that reshaped Brazil’s identity in the popular imagination and mesmerized architects around the globe."

Until his death at age 104 in 2012, over seven decades since one of his first projects—a 1936 collaboration with Lucio Costa and Le Corbusier—Oscar Niemeyer was still practicing. A technical pioneer and one of the 20th century’s most important architects, Niemeyer has designed close to 700 realized and unrealized buildings and, most notably, was the architect for the principal monuments in Brasilia, his homeland’s futuristic capital city and his undisputed major masterpiece. About the
Each book in TASCHEN’s Basic Architecture Series

Genres: Architecture, Art, Brazil

96 pages, Paperback

First published November 25, 2012

Reviews

[Matthew O'Brien · Rating 3 out of 5]

A nice short introduction to Oscar Niemeyer. Its a very short book however the section of the French Communist Party headquarters was very interesting. I think it could have leaned more into the anti-colonial nature of his architecture in particular the Université des sciences et de la technologie Houari-Boumediene in Algeria however it was still a nice little book. I will certainly buy more books from this range.