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Oscar Niemeyer: 1907-2012

The Architects' Journal; London (Dec 06, 2012).

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Oscar Niemeyer, the Brazilian architect whose curved concrete creations helped shape 20th Century
architecture has died at the age of 104

Niemeyer, who was due to turn 105 next week, had been battling with Kidney failure since the beginning of
November. The Modernist master who worked well into his 90s died of a lung infection in a hospital in Rio de
Janeiro, the city where he was born in 1907.

Niemeyer could be held responsible for bringing modernism to Brazil, and creating the buildings now so
synonymous with the country.

A winner of the 1988 Pritzker prize for Chicago's Hyatt Foundation and the RIBA gold medal ten years later,
Niemeyer was a national treasure in Brazil where his contemporary 'space-age' designs helped define the look
of the country's new capital, Brasilia.

Born in Rio de Janeiro, Niemeyer studied at the National School of Fine Arts in Rio and after graduating in
1934 began work as a draftsman in a number of architectural firms.

Spanning over half a century Niemeyer's career began in the 1930s when he interned with Lucio Costa,
collaborating on the Ministry of Education and Health, in Rio. This began a relationship that would span
Niemeyer's career and the pair worked again together when Niemeyer was invited to design the collection of
government buildings in the new city of Brasilia, which had been planned by Costa. It is this collection of
buildings which are...

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