Oscar Niemeyer
Oscar Niemeyer
Brazilian architect
Oscar Niemeyer by
This second and revised edition of "Oscar Niemeyer: A Legend of Modernity" has a new preface and an updated biography and list of works. It contains essays that analyze the important and current aspects of Niemeyer's work, as well as texts by Niemeyer himself. Topics include the place of Niemeyer's work in modern Brazilian architecture, his work as urban planner, the aspect of landscape in his practice, and his influence on architecture in Germany.
Call Number: E-BookISBN: 9783038210825Publication Date: 2013-06-18
Oscar Niemeyer by
Part of the TASCHEN’s Basic Architecture Series, this book features an introduction to the life and work of the architect, the major works in chronological order, information about the clients, architectural preconditions as well as construction problems and resolutions, a list of all the selected works and a map indicating the locations of the best and most famous buildings, and approximately 120 illustrations (photographs, sketches, drafts and plans).
Call Number: NA859.N5 A4 2012ISBN: 9783836530644Publication Date: 2013-02-15
Oscar Niemeyer Buildings by
This book, a companion to Rizzoli's "Oscar Niemeyer Houses," presents a reevaluation of his greatest buildings, in all new color photography specially commissioned for this book. Featured are the architect's most seminal work, including Ministry of Education and Health, Rio de Janeiro; Brasilia; New Pampulha Yacht Club, Belo Horizonte, Brazil; Mondadori Headquarters, Milan; Le Havre Central Cultural Center, France; Niteroi Museum of Contemporary Art, Brazil; and the Oscar Niemeyer Museum.
Call Number: NA859.N5 H47 2009ISBN: 9780847831906Publication Date: 2009-05-05
Oscar Niemeyer by
This illustrated book explores the development of Oscar 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 an analysis of Niemeyer's radical work and dissident perspective, "Oscar Niemeyer: Curves of Irreverence" sheds 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.
Call Number: NA859.N5 P52 2008ISBN: 0300120389Publication Date: 2008-09-03
Oscar Niemeyer: Houses by
"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.
Call Number: NA859.N5 H47 2006ISBN: 0847827984Publication Date: 2006-05-16
Oscar Niemeyer by
This book is an intimate exploration of Oscar Niemeyer'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. 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 a testimony of a living legend.
Call Number: NA859.N5 S24 2002ISBN: 2843233445Publication Date: 2002-04-01
The Curves of Time by
In this first-ever English-language edition of Oscar Niemeyer's memoirs, the architect reveals how his many passions - among them his large family, many friends, the sensuous landscape of Brazil, women, Communism, art and literature - have all influenced his life and in turn inspired his architecture.
Call Number: NA859.N6 A2 2000ISBN: 0714840076Publication Date: 2000-01-10
Oscar Niemeyer and the Architecture of Brazil by
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.
Call Number: NA859.N5 U54 1994ISBN: 0847816869Publication Date: 1994-10-15
