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Oscar Niemeyer

1907–2012 · Brazilian architect · Brazil

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Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer (Oscar Ribeiro de Almeida Niemeyer Soares Filho) posing smiling in his studio. The Italian publisher Giorgio Mondadori has recently commissioned the architect to bui
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Bio

Expanded modernism through sweeping curves, monumental civic spaces and Brazilian modern identity.

Key works

  • Brasília
  • Cathedral of Brasília

THE RETHINK

Oscar Niemeyer helps us rethink architecture as more than the production of buildings: their work shows how decisions about structure, space, materials, context or public life can change what a society considers possible.

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Oscar Niemeyer changed architecture through ideas, buildings and approaches that still shape how we understand space.
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