Oscar Niemeyer

Few architects have had the privilege of shaping a city, and a capital city at that, a challenge that Oscar Niemeyer (1907-2012) boldly pursued in the futuristic Brasilia, a city of undulating, sensual forms. From Rio de Janeiro, via Paris and Milan, over the course of his long career this master of concrete created buildings that imposed his style, made up of domes, suspended columns and primary colours, grafting his idea of light and ‘tropical’ modernism also into furniture and design objects. An architect of excellence courted by illustrious patrons, he always remained faithful to communist thought, fully convinced that his work was only a pretext: what really counts is life, the human being, with his soul, his feelings and his perennial hunger for justice and beauty. With a text by Philippe Trétiack.

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