ALAN WEITRAUB
Oscar Niemeyer was born at the dawn of the Modern movement in architecture, and today is universally acknowledged as a master of form, color, and light. The designer of Brasilia showed that the rhythmic, sensuous lines of Brazilian Modernism wew as legitimately Modern as the rectilinear lines of the Bauhaus. Now the last living Modern master, Niemeyer is known primarily for his large-scale institutional and civic designs throughout Brazil and Europe. These daringly conceptual and sensual desings challenged the twentieth-century orthodoxy about Modernism, materials and structure.
This book, a companion to Rizzoli´s Oscar Niemeyer Houses, presents, a timely reevaluation of the great buildings for which Niemeyer is widely famed, as seen in all new color photography. A comprehensive volume, Oscar Niemeyer Buildings features the architects most seminal work of past and present found both in Brazil and abroad including the revolutionary Ministry of Education and Health in Rio de janeiro; Brasilia Catheral and Alvorada Palace in Brasilia: Church of the Oscar Niemeyer Museum in Curitiba as well as Cummunist Party Headquarters in Paris, and Mondadori Headquarters in Milan.
