Oscar Niemeyer
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I had some good opportunities. I was lucky to have had the chance to do things differently. Architecture is about surprise.
— Quoted in "Architect of Optimism," Angel Gurria-Quintana, Financial Times (13 April 2007)
Oscar Ribeiro de Almeida Niemeyer Soares Filho (* 15. Dezember 1907 in Rio de Janeiro als Oscar de Almeida Soares; † 5. Dezember 2012 ebenda) war ein brasilianischer Architekt. Er gilt als Wegbereiter der modernen brasilianischen Architektur. Niemeyer entwarf zahlreiche öffentliche Gebäude für die brasilianische Hauptstadt Brasília, deren Zentrum 1987 zum Weltkulturerbe erklärt wurde. Im Jahr 2013 wurden seine architektonischen Zeichnungen und Baupläne von der UNESCO zum Weltdokumentenerbe erklärt.
Belegte, datierte Zitate von Oscar Niemeyer
I had some good opportunities. I was lucky to have had the chance to do things differently. Architecture is about surprise.
My ambition has always been to reduce a building’s support to a minimum. The more we diminish supporting structures, the more audacious and important the architecture is.
It is not the right angle that attracts me, nor the straight line, hard and inflexible, created by man.
I was attracted by the curve — the liberated, sensual curve suggested by the possibilities of new technology yet so often recalled in venerable old baroque churches.
Here, then, is what I wanted to tell you of my architecture.
Die sechs Teilsignale hinter dem Fame-Score und ihre Ränge in den Ranglisten.
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