Oscar Niemeyer

Today let's talk about one of the largest Brazilian architects, known for its waves in the constructions, which refer to the body of a Brazilian woman.

Soon he became known for that and for his longevity ...

A bit about its history:

Born in Rio de Janeiro in 1907, Oscar Niemeyer has been the Brazilian architect who accumulates the highest number of international awards, and displays a collection of works carried out in Brazil and abroad which makes it one of the exponents of universal architecture.

Formed in 1934 by the National School of Fine Arts, the first work that has developed - as a member of the team led by Costa and consulting Le Corbusier - to the headquarters of the Ministry of Education and Health in 1936, was characterized as an architectural landmark modern world.

In 1939, in collaboration with Lucio Costa, runs the project for the Brazil Pavilion exhibition in New York.

In 1940, the work Pampulha - Casino, Casa do Baile, Yacht Club and the Church of St. Francis of Assisi - came to be known internationally, demonstrating the possibilities of free-form concrete, clashing with the current language of the rationalist architecture of so.

In 1947participa team responsible for designing the headquarters of the United Nations - United Nations in New York. In the next ten years consolidating his work in the country until, in 1960, with the construction of new capital - Brasilia - achieves prestige and international recognition for designing the main public buildings and palaces, the seat of government, as the presidential palace, Justice , Plateau, Arches, and the Cathedral of Brasilia - all of them marked by the boldness of innovative structural and architectural aesthetics. Creator and founder of the University of Brasilia, with the deployment of the military regime, along with most of their teachers, it moves away from it, and the period of persecution and political repression then settles in the country leads him to accept several invitations working abroad.

With offices in Paris and mounted by the French government and received the award "Legion of Honor of France", "Gold Medal" of the French Academy of Architecture and member of the Artistic Directors of UNESCO, performs works worldwide, of which stand the Headquarters of the publisher Mondadori in Italy, the Cultural Center of Havre and the French Communist Party headquarters, in France, University of Constantine, Algiers, and the plans of the City of Neveg in Israel, the Urban Plan Algarve, Portugal; Civic Center and Administrative Algiers; Student Residential Center in Oxford, England, among others.

Back in Brazil, still in intense activity, especially in 1983 the works of the Samba (Sambadrome) and the set of prefabricated schools - CIEP, in Rio de Janeiro.

Among his most recent projects are the headquarters of the newspaper "L Humanite" in France, the Pantheon of Liberty, the Plaza of the Three Powers in Brasilia, the project for the Brazilian Embassy in Cuba, the Latin America Memorial in Sao Paulo.

Among the many awards include the Lenin Peace Prize in 1963; Award "Lorenzo il Magnifico", Italy, 1980, Honorary Member of the USSR Academy of Arts, 1983; Member of the European Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters 1983; Doctor "Honoris Causa" of the Academy of Construction of the German Democratic Republic, 1988; Pritzker Architecture Prize - United States, 1988, Honorary Member of the "Royal Institute of British Architects," England ace 1989, the same year, the Prince Award Las Artes de Asturias, Spain.