Alter | 118 Jahre |
Beruf | Architekt, Designer, Hochschullehrer |
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 war ein brasilianischer Architekt. Er gilt als Wegbereiter der modernen brasilianischen Architektur. Niemeyer entwarf zahlreiche öffentliche Gebäude für die brasilianische Hauptstadt Brasília, deren Zentrum 1987 zum Weltkulturerbe erklärt wurde. Im Jahr 2013 wurden seine architektonischen Zeichnungen und Baupläne von der UNESCO zum Weltdokumentenerbe erklärt. |
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.
