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	Oscar Niemeyer - Gurupedia
		Oscar Niemeyer was born in the city of Rio De Janeiro in 1907, on a street that later would receive the name from his grandfather Ribeiro de Almeida.
		Niemeyer was a boy at the time of the Russian Revolution, a young idealist during Second World War and lived in main era of the Cold war.
		Niemeyer opens a competition for the urbanistic lay-out of Brasília, the new capital, and the winner is the project of his old master and great friend, Lucio Costa.
	www.gurupedia.com /o/os/oscar_niemeyer.htm (1898 words)

	Random Works of the Web » Blog Archive » Oscar Niemeyer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Oscar Niemeyer Soares Filho (born December 15, 1907) is a Brazilian architect who is considered one of the most important names in international modern architecture.
		Oscar Niemeyer and his contribution to the construction of the city of Brasília is portrayed and somewhat parodied in the 1964 French movie L’homme de Rio (That Man From Rio), starring Jean-Paul Belmondo.
		Niemeyer organized a competition for the urbanistic lay-out of Brasília, the new capital, and the winner was the project of his old master and great friend, Lúcio Costa.
	random.dragonslife.org /oscar-niemeyer/6819 (2070 words)

	Oscar Niemeyer Soares - HighBeam Encyclopedia
		Niemeyer Soares, Oscar, 1907-, Brazil's foremost 20th-century architect, b.
		Influenced by Le Corbusier, Niemeyer developed an architecture noted for its daring conception, purity of line, and formal lyricism; it is frequently characterized by curving forms and soaring spans of reinforced concrete.
		Niemeyer directed the creation of Brazil's new capital, Brasília (1950-60), within Costa's master plan.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-Niemeyer.html (425 words)

	blueverticalstudio » Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer leaves lasting imprint on homeland
		Hundreds of prefabricated public schools are based on a design Niemeyer developed during the 1980s, and his imagination drove the construction of cathedrals, memorials, libraries, the stadium for Rio’s annual Carnaval parade, and even the slum house of his longtime driver.
		Niemeyer is finishing up two of the most ambitious projects of his career: a complex that includes a massive theater, churches and other buildings in Niteroi, and a national library and museum designed on a monumental scale in the heart of Brasilia.
		Niemeyer came to prominence in the mid-20th century as part of the modernist school of designers.
	blueverticalstudio.com /go/?p=2187 (1317 words)

	AllRefer.com - Oscar Niemeyer Soares (Architecture, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Oscar Niemeyer Soares[ooskAr´ nE´mIur sooA´rus] Pronunciation Key, 1907–;, Brazil's foremost 20th-century architect, b.
		Influenced by Le Corbusier, Niemeyer developed an architecture noted for its daring conception, purity of line, and formal lyricism and frequently characterized by soaring spans of reinforced concrete.
		He was one of the chief collaborators in the design of the ministry of education in Rio de Janeiro (1937–43).
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/N/Niemeyer.html (299 words)

	The Metropolis Observed: A Late Blossom of Modernism
		Oscar Niemeyer's Museum of Contemporary Art in Niterói, Brazil, is a masterpiece of late modernism in a country that never departed from the style.
		But Niemeyer is very much alive, and, in his nineties, has completed a building that shows his architectural gifts and his commitment to Modernism to be undimmed by age.
		And Niemeyer's Modernism has always been tied to his native country; a formalist, his buildings often refer to the shapes of the Brazilian landscape, especially the curves of Rio's mountains and, he has said, her women.
	www.metropolismag.com /html/content_0798/jl98gem.htm (893 words)

	Oscar Niemeyer - Brasilia - The Capital of Brazil :: arcspace.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Oscar Niemeyer - Brasilia - The Capital of Brazil :: arcspace.com
		The Constitution of Brazil has always contained a provision for the establishment of a new Capital in the center of the country, but But it was not until 1956, after eight years of surveying, that the actual design and construction of the new Capital began under President Juscelino Kubitschek.
		The smaller churches by Niemeyer, and some examples of later buildings by other Brazilian architects to illustrate what directions Brazilian architecture has taken, are also included.
	www.arcspace.com /architects/Niemeyer (359 words)

	Oscar Niemeyer - Great Buildings Online
		Oscar Niemeyer was born in Rio de Janeiro Brazil in 1907.
		In 1956 Niemeyer was appointed architectural adviser to Nova Cap - an organization charged with implementing Lucio Costa's plans for Brazil's new capital.
		Niemeyer continued to work on Brazilia until 1964 when his political affiliation with the communist party forced him into exile in France.
	www.greatbuildings.com /architects/Oscar_Niemeyer.html (435 words)

	Architecture - Oscar Niemeyer - Brasilia
		Urban planner Lucio Costa and architect Oscar Niemeyer intended that every element – from the layout of the residential and administrative districts (often compared to the shape of a bird in flight) to the symmetry of the buildings themselves – should be in harmony with the city's overall design.
		Construction of the new city began in 1957, and on April 21, 1960, Brasília was proclaimed the new capital of Brazil.
		Niemeyer is thus the only architect in the world who has had the honour of seeing his life work as cultural heritage.
	arthistory.heindorffhus.dk /frame-ArchitectureNiemeyer.htm (807 words)

	City Mayors: Brasilia - Capital of Brazil
		It is also said the futuristic architecture of the avowedly atheist Marxist Oscar Niemeyer has attracted them to the city, especially his Congress towers, between which the sun rises.
		Niemeyer’s sculpted modernist designs are regarded as some of the best examples of his profession.
		Niemeyer was a boy at the time of the Russian Revolution of 1917, a young idealist during the Second World War and lived most of his life during the Cold War.
	www.citymayors.com /development/brasilia.html (1925 words)

	Architect's gift to Cuba hails anti-U.S. stance
		The design, which Niemeyer calls ``my present to the Cuban people,'' is of a concrete circle, broken by the Cuban flag, symbolizing the island's resistance against the U.S. economic blockade.
		Niemeyer still hasn't visited Cuba, his flying phobia outweighing his fervency, but at last he decided to deliver his tribute.
		Niemeyer was born in Rio, into what he called a bourgeois family, but says he was inspired, in both his politics and his art by the misery around him.
	www.fiu.edu /~fcf/oscar.commie.0697.html (752 words)

	Bunshaft & Neimeyer
		Citation to Oscar Niemeyer from the Pritzker Jury
		Oscar Niemeyer was born in the hillside district of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and has lived and worked in that area ever since, with occasional forays to France and Italy.
		As President, he appointed Niemeyer to be the chief architect of Brasilia, a project which occupied all of his time for many years.
	www.pritzkerprize.com /bunnei.htm (2134 words)

	News & Views (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The group of works chosen for this show is only part of the exhibition “Niemeyer 90 years”, presented last year in São Paulo in celebration of Niemeyer’s 90th anniversary.
		Sculptor of space, enemy of the straight angle, in love with curves, Niemeyer had learned very well to make poems with the dryness and coldness of concrete when he drew, from the mid 1930’s on, more than 500 projects.
		Titled Oscar Niemeyer, an architect engaged with his century, the movie directed by Marc-Henri Wajnberg, even though remarkable, fails to dissipate the feeling of scarcity that this spectacle-exhibit produces.
	www.artnexus.com /NewsDetail/8441 (679 words)

	Oscar Niemeyer
		Oscar Niemeyer invites us in to his office located on the top floor of the highest building in the city with a panoramic view over Copacabana.
		Oscar Niemeyer was born in 1907 in Rio de Janeiro.
		Niemeyer was made chief architect and given the commission to design all of the most important buildings himself.
	www.scandinaviandesign.com /news/claesson/9907.htm (1513 words)

	Oscar Niemeyer - Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2003 :: arcspace.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The pavilion is a temporary structure erected for special events on the gallery's lawn from June to September.
		Throughout the 1950s Niemeyer designed groundbreaking public and corporate buildings in Brazil and, in 1958, became chief architect of Nova Cap, the organization that created Brasilia.
		Niemeyer returned to Brazil after democracy was restored in 1989.
	www.arcspace.com /architects/Niemeyer/serpentine_gallery/index.htm (209 words)

	ACLU: A History of Ideological Exclusions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Niemeyer helped designed the United Nations Headquarters in New York City.
		He had been unable to obtain a visa because he was a member of the Brazilian Communist party.
		Niemeyer was a supporter of open dialogue, and once remarked, "the United Nations means that men from different governments and ideologies are able to sit down like brothers and discuss their problems.
	www.aclu.org /SafeandFree/details/niemeyer.html (78 words)

	The History of Brasilia - Part III
		Appointed mayor of Belo Horizonte in 1940 (again by Benedito Valadares), he called Oscar Niemeyer, then in the dawn of his career, to be responsible for many of his intended projects, including the reurbanization of Pampulha.
		Niemeyer was the architect of many buildings in Brasilia, including the Congress, the Palace of Dawn (Palácio da Alvorada), the Palace of Justice, Palácio do Planalto, Palácio dos Arcos (also called Itamaraty), the Cathedral, University of Brasilia, National Theater, and JK Memorial.
		According to Fundação Oscar Niemeyer and most other sources, the name is Oscar Niemeyer Soares Filho.
	www.infobrasilia.com.br /bsb_h3i.htm (1230 words)

	index magazine interview
		The architect Oscar Niemeyer, at the age of 92, still goes to his office every day, and continues to give the world some of the most sensuous, beautiful buildings anyone has ever imagined — let alone built.
		There was a popular theory at the time that a developing nation could skip what was believed to be an evolutionary stage of early Western-style industrialization and propel itself directly into the modern age through large scale construction projects that were designed to cause a kind of spatially-based social conditioning of their inhabitants.
		But in Brasilia, Niemeyer moved beyond the influence of Corbusier into an organic realm based on the curves of the mountains and the sunbathing women of his native Rio.
	www.indexmagazine.com /interviews/oscar_niemeyer.shtml (2559 words)

	Oscar Niemeyer: house in Canoas, Brazil, 1953
		The interior furnishings, designed by Niemeyer himself with his daughter Ana Maria, give the home a cordial feeling of familiarity which is also evident in the original curved forms occurring all over the home.
		Nature does not appear detached or recreated artificially, but is free to insinuate itself into every corner of the home, as, for instance, in the large piece of granite which juts into the living room from the garden as if it were growing out of the floor.
		But the relationship between house and landscape changes if we go into the bedrooms: here Niemeyer has designed the rooms to be refuges, with small windows revealing only a tiny part of the luxuriant growth outside.
	www.floornature.com /articoli/articolo.php/id77/sez10/en (530 words)

	Amazon.com: Oscar Niemeyer: Books: Matthieu Salvaing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Oscar Niemeyer, one of the most prolific architects of the 20th century, has long been considered a pioneer of modern architecture.
		Niemeyer's crowning achievement was the creation of a new capital for Brazil.
		Named chief architect for Brasilia, Niemeyer used his signature style - a play on the contrast between curves and concrete - to design its major buildings and left his mark on an entire nation.
	www.amazon.com /Oscar-Niemeyer-Matthieu-Salvaing/dp/2843233445 (844 words)

	EGODESIGN.CA The first canadian webzine dedicated to global design
		When Oscar Niemeyer reminisces, we can’t help but hear the laughter and gaiety of women.
		Then later there is his wife, his cherished daughter and granddaughters, one of whom today manages the Oscar Niemeyer Foundation.
		Oscar married Annita Ballo when he was 21, then began his studies at l’Escola Nacional de Bellas Artes, where he graduated in 1934.
	www.egodesign.ca /en/article.php?article_id=31 (404 words)

	Oscar Niemeyer. A Legend of Modernism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		A concise, stimulating and attractively illustrated overview of the works of Oscar Niemeyer, underlining his relevance for today´s architecture.
		The Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer, born in 1907, counts as one of the great architects of the 20th century.
		Striking colour photographs from the Niemeyer archives, spread over 48 pages illustrate the highlights of his architecture.
	www.booklounge.com /books/architecture/oscar-niemeyer-a-legend-of-modernism (204 words)

	Tropolism: Oscar Niemeyer: Still Up To Bizarre Cool Stuff
		She didn't speak much Spanish or Portuguese, so their conversation kind of stopped at him saying "yes, the space between buildings and the city are important." What amazed her the most is that he's still up to big, bizarre shapes, and he is 98 (born December 15, 1907).
		Case in point, the folks at Daily Dose point us to a theater in Ibirapuera Park, São Paulo, Brazil, which opened last October, in a park Niemeyer designed in the early 1950s.
		There is a longer description of the project at ARCOweb, in Portuguese.
	www.tropolism.com /2006/08/oscar_niemeyer_still_up_to_biz.php (145 words)

	Oscar Niemeyer Soares — FactMonster.com
		, Niemeyer developed an architecture noted for its daring conception, purity of line, and formal lyricism; it is frequently characterized by curving forms and soaring spans of reinforced concrete.
		and P. Wiener, Niemeyer designed the Brazilian Pavilion for the New York World's Fair in 1939.
		Niemeyer directed the creation of Brazil's new capital,
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/people/A0835640.html (192 words)

	World renowned architect Oscar Niemeyer marries at 98
		A month before his 99th birthday, world-renowned architect Oscar Niemeyer has gotten married.
		It was the second marriage for Niemeyer, who is known for his modernistic style.
		The newspapers says Niemeyer has known his new wife for 30 years and she became his secretary 14 years ago.
	www.wflx.com /Global/story.asp?S=5701564 (135 words)

	Brasília Home Page
		Kubitschek nominated architect Oscar Niemeyer to head NOVACAP, whose goal was to get Brasília built.
		Niemeyer would go on to design most of the government buildings for Brasília.
		Before the city could be built, a plan to build the city needed to be adopted.
	www.macalester.edu /courses/geog61/jmoersch/geography.html (641 words)

	Oscar Niemeyer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Niemeyer designed all of the public buildings for the project.
		A fervent communist, He was awarded the Lenin Peace Prize in 1963.
		After a military coup overthrew the Brazilian government in 1964, Niemeyer was hounded from the government and lost all of his clients due to his politics, and went into exile in France until 1985.
	www.nndb.com /people/460/000114118 (99 words)

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