modern architecture

waves

free-flowing

curves

I'm not attracted to straight angles or to the straight line, hard and inflexible, created by man. I'm attracted to free-flowing, sensual curves. The curves that I find in the mountains of my country, in the sinuousness of its rivers, in the waves of the ocean, and on the body of the beloved woman. Curves make up the entire Universe, the curved Universe of Einstein.

Oscar Ribeiro de Almeida Niemeyer Soares Filho

background

• National School of Fine Arts, Rio de Janeiro - RJ;
• Lúcio Costa (1937-1943) - Ministry of Education and Health building;
• The complex within Pampulha, a new suburb of Belo Horizonte (1941) - MG;
• The planning of the United Nations buildings (1947) - NY;
• Brasília, the new capital (1956) - DF.

international awards

• The Lenin Peace Prize - 1963;
• The Pritzker Architecture Prize - 1988 (cowinner with Gordon Bunshaft);
• The Japan Art Association’s Praemium Imperiale prize for architecture - 2004.

Brasília - DF

Niterói - RJ

São Luís - MA

After his death in 2012, Niemeyer left the world more than five hundred works scattered throughout the Americas, Africa, and Europe.