Oscar Niemeyer   Spain   Equidistant from Gijón and Oviedo, Avilés is the third largest city of Asturias population wise, and its name has been associated, since the late 19th century, but above all since the second half of the 20th, with the industrial sector. This field wa

Oscar Niemeyer   Brazil   Considered a landmark of Brazilian architecture, the building is surrounded with symbolism and controversy. Symbolism because it was the first to use modern architecture as metaphor of Brazil’s political and economic transformations, initiated with t

Oscar Niemeyer   United States   Even before the new building for the Ministry of Education and Health was ready, Oscar Niemeyer’s creativity was already clear in the team. Proof of this is that Lucio Costa gave him another big opportunity: after winning in the competition for the B

Oscar Niemeyer   Brazil   Conceived during the term of the Mayor of Belo Horizonte at the time, Juscelino Kubitschek (JK), the Pampulha complex was finished after nine months of construction works. The politician, after inviting the French urbanist Alfred Agache and being dis

Oscar Niemeyer   Brazil   Ibirapuera Park was built to commemorate the 400 years of the foundation of the city of São Paulo, celebrated in 1954. At that time, the city – thanks to the industrial impulse generated by the production of coffee – became the major economic center

Oscar Niemeyer   Brazil   Built in the mountains surrounding Rio de Janeiro and far away from the city center, the house on Das Canoas road was designed to become Niemeyer’s home. Before this work, the architect had already built another two houses for himself: in 1942 he des

Oscar Niemeyer   Brazil   Alter the compound called Catetinho, which served as temporary accommodation during the visits of Juscelino Kubitschek to the capital, the Alvorada Palace was the first structure to be raised in the city of Brasília. The project was finished prior to

Oscar Niemeyer   Brazil   Surrounded with symbolism, like any religious building, the Cathedral of Brasilia – whose official name is Catedral Metropolitana Nossa Senhora Aparecida – is one of the most expressive pieces in the capital. It is located in a secondary area of the

Oscar Niemeyer   Brazil   The Planalto Palace (seat of government, where the President of the Republic meets with advisors and visitors) and the seat of the Federal Supreme Court (the highest authority of the judicial power) compose, with the National Congress, the Praça dos

Oscar Niemeyer   Brazil   The Nacional Congress, which includes the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate, is located in a strategic site in Brasília. On the one hand, it defines the perspective of the esplanade where the Ministry buildings are, at the end of the Monumental Axis

Oscar Niemeyer   Brazil   Of the government buildings of Brasília, Itamaraty, seat of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, is one of the most striking ones. In contrast to the contents of Lucio Costa’s master plan, in which all the Ministry buildings were accommodated in the assi

The Unesco Commitee that gathered in Istanbul on 10 July only to cut short its stay because of the 16 July coup d’etat attempt has added five new enclaves to its Heritage of Humanity list, among them seventeen buildings by Le Corbusier and the batter

Luis Fernández-Galiano   We begin to celebrate the centenaries of those who were our masters, and the many anniversaries in 2013 prompts a pixelated portrait of architecture after the First World War with ten biographies of figures born on the eve of the Second. In my case,

Roberto Segre   Marked by fruitful contradictions, the work of the longest-living master of the Modern Movement transcended architecture to become a symbol of Brazilian culture.

On 5th December 2012, ten days before his 105th birthday and six months after the death of his octogenarian daughter, the longest-living master of the Modern Movement passed away in Rio de Janeiro, the city where he was born and where he maintained a

El 5 de diciembre, diez días antes de cumplir 105 años, y seis meses después del fallecimiento de su hija octogenaria, ha muerto en Río de Janeiro Oscar Niemeyer. Con una obra sensual que conjuga la racionalidad de las formas puras y la plasticidad d

Peter Buchanan   Desde su primera edición en 2000, la convocatoria de los pabellones de la Galería Serpentine constituye un singular escaparate mediático donde se funden el arte y la arquitectura.

José Miguel Iribas   Francisco Mangado   Proletaria y con ría, Avilés tiene semejanzas con Bilbao; la próxima inauguración del Centro Niemeyer, según proyecto regalado por el arquitecto brasileño, puede convertirla en foco cultural.

A pesar de la edad del maestro centenario, el estudio de Oscar Niemeyer (véase AV Monografías 125) sigue en plena forma ejecutando obras por todo el mundo. La última en acabarse ha sido un auditorio —bautizado con el nombre del arquitecto brasileño—

Sylvia Ficher   La emoción de Clarice Lispector al visitar Brasilia en sus inicios nos lleva a reflexionar sobre el nacimiento de una nueva ciudad. ¿Puede considerarse Brasilia todavía hoy una ‘ciudad nueva’? ¿Cumple los atributos propuestos por Ricardo Trevisan par

La sede madrileña de la Fundación Telefónica reúne maquetas, dibujos, fotografías y proyecciones de las obras más emblemáticas de Oscar Niemeyer, además de siete nuevos proyectos, concebidos en los tres años escasos que han transcurrido desde la cele

La colección de documentales cuya primera entrega acompañó el número 125 de AV dedicado a Oscar Niemeyer ha llegado ya a su sexto volumen. La serie, impulsada por la Fundación Arquia Caja de Arquitectos, ofrece nuevos puntos de vista sobre la histori

The Radical Schools of Oscar Niemeyer, Darcy Ribeiro and Leonel Brizola / Arquitectura Viva 205

Rio de Janeiro  2009  
ºViana & Mosley   - 176 Pages 

Roberto Segre   100 years 100 works

Roberto Dulio   Milan  2007  
Mondadori Electa   - 174 Pages