Niemeyer

Niemeyer

<div id="description_text_headlines"> <div> <strong>The man who built the future: Seven decades of work from the Brazilian visionary</strong></div> <div>  </div> </div> <div id="description_text"> On the occasion of Brazilian architect <strong>Oscar Niemeyer</strong>€s 100th anniversary, the<em> New York Times</em> wrote, <em>"In the 1940s, €50s and €60s he established himself as one of Modernism€s greatest luminaries, infusing stark abstract forms with a beguiling tropical hedonism that reshaped Brazil€s identity in the popular imagination and mesmerized architects around the globe."</em><br /> <br /> Until his death at age 104 in 2012, over seven decades since one of his first projects€"a 1936 collaboration with Lucio Costa and Le Corbusier€"Oscar Niemeyer was still practicing. A technical pioneer and one of the 20th century€s most important architects, Niemeyer has designed close to 700 realized and unrealized buildings and, most notably, was the architect for the principal monuments in Brasilia, his homeland€s futuristic capital city and his undisputed major masterpiece.</div> <div>  </div> <div id="series_text" style="display: block;"> <strong>About the Series:</strong><br /> Each book in TASCHEN€s Basic Architecture Series features:<ul> <li>an introduction to the life and work of the architect</li> <li>the major works in chronological order</li> <li>information about the clients, architectural preconditions as well as construction problems and resolutions</li> <li>a list of all the selected works and a map indicating the locations of the best and most famous buildings</li> <li>approximately 120 illustrations (photographs, sketches, drafts and plans)</li> </ul> </div>