That would make it easier to explain why the Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer, who died Wednesday, December 5 at 104, was one of my heroes. Not for his politics, of course – he was ...

Oscar Niemeyer and landscape architect Roberto Burle Marx ... W*: What would you wish for the future of Brazilian architecture? Niemeyer: That it always responds, in a creative manner, to technical ...

Oscar Niemeyer, widely regarded as the foremost Latin American architect of the last century ... was left to create many of the “city-of-the-future” buildings that caught the popular imagination.

Oscar Niemeyer, the architect, who has died aged 104 ... was envisaged as a utopian city of the future in the mould of one of Le Corbusier’s most visionary schemes — Ville Radieuse, a city ...

The landmark 1960s home in Santa Monica was the legendary Brazilian modernist's only residential project in the U.S.

a modernist who defined 20th-century Brazilian architecture, making waves still felt in her field; here, we explore her work and lasting influence Oscar Niemeyer: a guide to the Brazilian modernist, ...

This philosophy was brought to life in concrete by Oscar Niemeyer for more than seven decades. In the landscapes of Rio, the ...

He commissioned architect Oscar Niemeyer to help with the project, and within a matter of months, Niemeyer designed residential, commercial, and government buildings for the new town. Chief among ...

Architect Oscar Niemeyer, who recreated Brazil's sensuous curves in reinforced concrete and built the capital of Brasilia on the empty central plains as a symbol of the nation's future ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Oscar Niemeyer, a towering patriarch of modern architecture who shaped ... dreams of making Brazil "the country of the future." His work is celebrated for innovative ...