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Book Synopsis Oscar Niemeyer by : Styliane Philippou
Download or read book Oscar Niemeyer written by Styliane Philippou and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born in Rio de Janeiro in 1907, Oscar Niemeyer is recognized as one of the world's most fiercely original architects and the central figure of Brazilian architectural Modernism. The prolific designer of more than 600 buildings, Niemeyer has been in practice for seven decades. Architecture, he declares must be "functional, beautiful, and shocking." Transgressing orthodox Modernist aesthetic doctrine and subverting hegemonic cultural models, his work privileged invention and affirmed spectacle and luxury, pleasure, beauty, and sensuality as legitimate architectural pursuits. This gorgeously illustrated book explores the development of Niemeyer's extraordinary body of ideas and forms as well as his role in the construction of Brazil's modern image and cultural tradition. Through a detailed discussion of his intoxicating experiments in reinforced concrete, the book offers the opportunity to relish the stream of pleasures afforded by Niemeyer's important buildings, including his mid-century projects as chief architect for the new capital of Brasília, and the spectacular Niterói Museum of Contemporary Art, completed in 1996. Providing the first comprehensive analysis of Niemeyer's radical work and dissident perspective, Oscar Niemeyer: Curves of Irreverence sheds new light on the route the architect has followed as well as on Brazilian Modernism as a non-conformist project informed by a nationalist and anti-colonialist stance.
Book Synopsis Oscar Niemeyer and the Architecture of Brazil by : David Kendrick Underwood
Download or read book Oscar Niemeyer and the Architecture of Brazil written by David Kendrick Underwood and published by Rizzoli International Publications. This book was released on 1994 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Oscar Niemeyer, born in 1907, is widely considered this century's leading Latin American architect, as well as one of the pioneers of modern architecture. This volume explores the major themes and sources of the most important works from all phases of Niemeyer's career, from the early collaborations of the 1930s and 1940s with Lucio Costa, the spiritual father of Brazilian modernism, to the 1989 Memorial da America Latina in Sao Paulo, a complex that reveals the maturation of Niemeyer's free-form style in the service of his utopian vision. A central theme of Niemeyer's work has been its reflection of the Brazilian jeito, a sinuous and improvisational style manifested in everything from the country's sensual, undulating landscape to its attraction to spontaneous impulses, best known through its vibrant music and dance. The jeito and the milieu of Rio de Janeiro lie at the heart of Niemeyer's free-form style, which emphasizes the inherent plasticity of the native curve over the rigid rectilinearity of the International Style in Europe. A second theme treats the influence on Niemeyer of the poetic style of Le Corbusier. Also considered are Niemeyer's attraction to surrealist biomorphic forms and his desire to express a sense of the fantastic in architecture. A final theme is Niemeyer's search for an aesthetic utopia that would resolve social dilemmas by wishing them away through architecture. Herein lies Niemeyer's strength, for as his architecture reflects the multiple dichotomies of the Brazilian experience, it projects an emotive universality that few architects have been able to achieve."--Publisher.
Book Synopsis Oscar Niemeyer by : Matthieu Salvaing
Download or read book Oscar Niemeyer written by Matthieu Salvaing and published by Editions Assouline. This book was released on 2008-10 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The work of the last living modernist architect.
Book Synopsis Oscar Niemeyer Houses by : Alan Hess
Download or read book Oscar Niemeyer Houses written by Alan Hess and published by Rizzoli International Publications. This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oscar Niemeyer is one of the greatest architects of our time. Hugely influential, his work has added a new dimension to modern architecture in the twentieth century. The designer of Brasilia showed that the rhythmic, sensuous lines of Brazilian Modernism were as legitimately modern as the rectilinear lines of the Bauhaus. Oscar Niemeyer Houses showcases the houses built by this seminal modern master in a lavish format that finally does justice to his extraordinary work. Viewed as a collection, these houses serve to demonstrate the wide range of Niemeyer's prodigious genius. The designs show a personal and eclectic facet to Niemeyer's creative imagination, a side of the master little known and under-appreciated. Often built for family members or major clients, they show a wealth of solutions that respond to a wide range of sites: the steep hillsides of Rio, the Atlantic beach shore, the rain forest, and the residential neighborhoods of Rio and Sao Paulo. This celebrated work stands as an enduring and notable tribute to one of the last of the international masters of Modernism.
Book Synopsis The Curves of Time by : Oscar Neimeyer
Download or read book The Curves of Time written by Oscar Neimeyer and published by Phaidon Press. This book was released on 2007-12-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This autobiography is of the man known mainly for his collaboration with Le Corbusier, Oscar Niemeyer. It looks at his buildings in Brasilia and Pampulha, renowned for their striking and visionary style. It reveals his philosophy and many passions."
Book Synopsis Oscar Niemeyer and Brazilian Free-form Modernism by : David Kendrick Underwood
Download or read book Oscar Niemeyer and Brazilian Free-form Modernism written by David Kendrick Underwood and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A second theme treats the influence on Niemeyer of the poetic style of Le Corbusier.
Book Synopsis The Revolution Will be Stopped Halfway by : Jason Oddy
Download or read book The Revolution Will be Stopped Halfway written by Jason Oddy and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boumedienne, Niemeyer : When Militarism Meets Modernism / Samia Henni -- Concrete Spring / Jason Oddy -- The Revolution Will Be Stopped Halfway / Jason Oddy -- Documents / Oscar Niemeyer Foundation Archive.
Download or read book Curves of Time written by Oscar Neimeyer and published by Phaidon Press Limited. This book was released on 2000-01-10 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The memoirs of the architectural master Oscar Niemeyer, a pioneer of Modernism.
Download or read book Niemeyer written by Philip Jodidio and published by . This book was released on 2016-01-29 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oscar Niemeyer was something of an unstoppable architectural force. Over seven decades of work, he designed approximately 600 buildings, transforming skylines from Bab-Ezzouar, Algeria, to his homeland masterpiece, Brasilia.
Book Synopsis Oscar Niemeyer by : Matthieu Salvaing
Download or read book Oscar Niemeyer written by Matthieu Salvaing and published by Assouline Books & Gifts. This book was released on 2002 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oscar Niemeyer, one of the most prolific architects of the 20th century, has long been considered a pioneer of modern architecture. This book is an intimate exploration of one man's unique vision, and his commitment to it even as he faced exile from his home country, Brazil. Niemeyer's crowning achievement was the creation of a new capital for Brazil. Named chief architect for Brasilia, Niemeyer used his signature style - a play on the contrast between curves and concrete - to design its major buildings and left his mark on an entire nation. Now 92 years old, Niemeyer remains one of the greatest living architects of our time. With an in-depth interview and photographs by Matthieu Salvaing - who traveled with Niemeyer from Rio to Brasilia, from Sao Paulo to Belo Horizonte, this book is the candid testimony of a living legend.
Book Synopsis Wherever You Find People by : Aberrant Architecture
Download or read book Wherever You Find People written by Aberrant Architecture and published by Park Publishing (WI). This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wherever You Find People' captures the compelling story of the Integrated Centres of Public Education (CIEP) in the Brazilian city and federal state of Rio de Janeiro. This unique but relatively obscure experimental educational project is a prime example of socially driven public architecture and a testament to ambition and forward thinking. The CIEPs were conceived in 1982 by Rio's State Governor Leonel Brizola (1922-2004), the anthropologist, author and politician Darcy Ribeiro (1922-97), and the eminent architect Oscar Niemeyer (1907-2012). Today a network of 508 CIEPs covers the entire state of Rio wherever you find people, you will find a CIEP. This new book is based on extensive interviews with key protagonists and richly illustrated with original sketches and annotated drawings from the Oscar Niemeyer Foundation archive, alongside visuals by Aberrant Architecture. It also features new essays illustrating how architecture can embrace the constraints and conditions of the modern world and engage creatively with the reality of today's social, political, legislative and economic boundaries. 'Wherever You Find People' contributes to a wider architectural discourse about the links between education, design and school building.
Download or read book Brasilia written by René Burri and published by Scheidegger and Spiess. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Last year marked the fiftieth anniversary of the inauguration of Brazil's capital Brasilia. Designed by architects Lúcio Costa and Oscar Niemeyer, it has since become one of the most famous and widely studied urban planning projects. Niemeyer's cathedral, Catedral Metropolitana Nossa Senhora Aparecida; his building for the national parliament, the Congresso Nacional; and the city's 707-foot television tower have become icons of twentieth-century architecture. The entire city, marked by its cross-shaped layout and vast open spaces, was named a UNESO World Heritage site in 1987. René Burri, an internationally celebrated Swiss-born photographer and member of the legendary Magnum agency, visited the city for the first time on a long journey around South America in 1958, when most of Brasilia was a vast building site. He returned many times over more than thirty years, documenting the growth and development of this urban utopia. Besides documenting the buildings in various stages of completion, Burri took portraits of Niemeyer and his workers and photographed Brasilia's street scenes and people: workers with their tools, machinery and building materials, pedestrians on the newly finished streets and squares, and aerial views from the air of the city's first slums abutting brand-new blocks of residential buildings. His images capture the strong sense of a new era and a vibrant atmosphere of hard work and strain; they reflect the huge dimensions of the landscape and the great scale of this project and its ambition to design and build a new capital--and fill it with life. Complete with an essay by eminent architect and scholar of architectural history Arthur Rüegg, René Burri. Brasilia marks the city's fiftieth anniversary and allows readers to look at an extraordinary city through the eyes of an exceptional photographer.
Download or read book Oscar Niemeyer written by Stamo Papadaki and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the history of architecture examples of lyrical buildings, buildings as the result of a poetic image rather than of a function, are few and far apart in time and space - be it the temple of Apteros Nike, a church by Guarino Guarini or the Eiffel Tower. This is easy to understand. In a world conditioned by physical forces, social impacts, and economic determinism, the architect must be a very powerful dreamer, with dreams big enough to engulf and obliterate all kinds of secondary realities. The extent to which Oscar Niemeyer is the very able, the highly effectual dreamer is made evident in Professor Papadaki's essay. Niemeyer, by giving to basic architectural forms a new and surprising meaning, created variations and new solutions with local patterns which have a grace and subtlety until then unknown to modern architecture," stated Lucio Costa - the most respected architectural voice in all of Latin America - in perhaps the clearest summation of Niemeyer's contribution to contemporary building activity. To all appearances Niemeyer is not a theorist; he indulges in the ineffable delight of designing buildings, in the direct creative processes which in architecture are not free of the painful shocks of reality nor unmixed with heartaches. Yet the stern realities of an architectural problem: the dictates of the terrain, the demands of the building program, the commands of technology, the availability of skills and the choice of materials, the restrictions of budget and the incoherencies of the client - all become with Niemeyer the subjects of a miraculous metamorphosis, the elements of a lyrical act. Professor Papadaki describes the latent state of exuberance which is so much suggested by the climate, the topography and the flora of Brazil and which finds in Niemeyer's work a tangible plastic expression; architecture becoming in its turn one of man's essential joys. -- Amazon.
Download or read book Portraits written by Michael Kimmelman and published by Random House (NY). This book was released on 1998 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The chief art critic for "The New York Times" gives a painter's-, sculptor's-, and photographer's-eye view of art as he explores museums with some of today's most important artists. Photos throughout.
Book Synopsis Oscar Niemeyer Buildings by : Alan Hess
Download or read book Oscar Niemeyer Buildings written by Alan Hess and published by Rizzoli International Publications. This book was released on 2009 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With specially-commissioned colour photography, this is a re-evaluation of the great buildings of Oscar Niemeyer. These are the buildings Niemeyer himself considers his most important work, including works in Brazil, France, Italy and Algeria.
Download or read book Oscar Niemeyer written by Josep M. Botey and published by Gg. This book was released on 1996 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oscar Niemeyer (Rio de Janeiro, 1907) began his career working as an assistant to the architect Lucio Costa, who introduced him to Le Corbusier. With more than 400 illustrations, this is the most complete study yet published on the work of one of the Brazil's most famous architects. Set out in ten chapters, arranged typologically, the book presents a selection of buildings and projects by an architect who has managed to combine the great tradition of his native Brazil with curvilinear forms, obtaining results that have frequently earned him the accolade of maestro.
Book Synopsis Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2003 by : Oscar Niemeyer
Download or read book Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2003 written by Oscar Niemeyer and published by Trolley Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2003, designed by seminal Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer, will be his first completed structure in the United Kingdom. Sited on the Gallery's lawn from June 20th to September 14th of that year, it will offer visitors an opportunity to experience a space designed by one of the founding figures of modern architecture.
