Geburtsdatum | Sonntag, 15. Dezember 1907 |
Geburtsort | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
Todesort | Rio_de_Janeiro |
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Beschreibung | Oscar Ribeiro de Almeida Niemeyer Soares Filho (15 December 1907 – 5 December 2012), known as Oscar Niemeyer (Brazilian Portuguese: [ˈoskaʁ ni.eˈmajeʁ]), was a Brazilian architect considered to be one of the key figures in the development of modern architecture. Niemeyer was best known for his design of civic buildings for Brasília, a planned city that became Brazil's capital in 1960, as well as his collaboration with other architects on the headquarters of the United Nations in New York. His exploration of the aesthetic possibilities of reinforced concrete was highly influential in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. |
There is no reason to design buildings that are more basic and rectilinear, because with concrete you can cover almost any space.
Architecture will always express the technical and social progress of the country in which it is carried out. If we wish to give it the human content that it lacks, we must participate in the political struggle.
It is not with architecture that one can disseminate any political ideology.
Architecture is my work, and I've spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important than architecture. What matters is to improve human beings.
It was the drawing that led me to architecture, the search for light and astonishing forms.
I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness.
Sometimes I lose a whole morning waiting on journalists and other people who look for me. But I always find some time for reading, talking to my friends and feeling what is happening in this world.
Architecture is invention.
