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Oscar Niemeyer
Oscar Niemeyer
[Oscar Ribeiro de Almeida Niemeyer Soares Filho]
* Rio de Janeiro, Brazil [Brasil], 15 December 1907
+ Rio de Janeiro, Brazil [Brasil], 5 December 2012
nationality: brazilian
Oscar Niemeyer
Avenida Atlantica, 3940
22070-002 Rio de Janeiro - Brazil [Brasil]
Tel: +55.21.5234890 - Fax: +55.21.2676388
Fundação Oscar Niemeyer
Rua Conde Lages, 25 - Glória
20241-080 Rio de Janeiro - Brazil [Brasil]
Tel: +55.21.2509.1844
www.niemeyer.org.br
fundacao@niemeyer.org.br
AWARDS
 
2009
Orden de las Artes y las Letras de España
2004
Praemium Imperiale
Architecture

Japan Art Association
1998
Royal Gold Medal
RIBA - Royal Institute of British Architects
1996
Leone d'Oro alla Carriera
VI Mostra Internazionale di Architettura della Biennale di Venezia
1989
Premio Príncipe de Asturias
1988
Pritzker Architecture Prize
1963
Premio Lenin de la Paz
BUILDINGS
 
2000 - 2010
Auditorium Oscar Niemeyer
Italy [Italia] » Ravello
2007 - 2010
Centro Cultural Internacional Oscar Niemeyer
Spain [España] » Avilés
2002 - 2005
Brazil [Brasil] » São Paulo
2002 - 2005
Hotel Puerta América - Hoz
Spain [España] » Madrid
2001 - 2002
Brazil [Brasil] » Curitiba
1978 - 1981
Italy [Italia] » San Mauro Torinese
1971 - 1980
France [France] » Paris
1976 - 1980
Italy [Italia] » Pianezza
1975 - 1977
Brazil [Brasil] » Brasilia
1976
Brazil [Brasil] » Brasilia
1968 - 1975
Italy [Italia] » Segrate
1972
Brazil [Brasil] » Florianopolis
1970
Brazil [Brasil] » Rio de Janeiro
1966
Brazil [Brasil] » Rio de Janeiro
1958 - 1960
Brazil [Brasil] » Brasilia
1958 - 1960
Brazil [Brasil] » Brasilia
1960
Brazil [Brasil] » Brasilia
1958 - 1960
Brazil [Brasil] » Brasilia
1960
Brazil [Brasil] » Brasilia
1960
Brazil [Brasil] » Brasilia
1960
Brazil [Brasil] » Brasilia
1960
Brazil [Brasil] » Brasilia
1960
Brazil [Brasil] » Brasilia
1960
Brazil [Brasil] » Brasilia
1959
Brazil [Brasil] » Brasilia
1951 - 1958
Brazil [Brasil] » Belo Horizonte
1958
Brazil [Brasil] » Brasilia
1958
Brazil [Brasil] » Brasilia
1957
Germany [Deutschland] » Berlin
1955
Brazil [Brasil] » Rio de Janeiro
1955
Brazil [Brasil] » Rio de Janeiro
1955
Brazil [Brasil] » São Paulo
1954
Brazil [Brasil] » Petrópolis
1951 - 1954
Brazil [Brasil] » São Paulo
1951 - 1954
Brazil [Brasil] » São Paulo
1951 - 1954
Brazil [Brasil] » São Paulo
1953
Brazil [Brasil] » Belo Horizonte
1953
Brazil [Brasil] » Rio de Janeiro
1951 - 1953
Brazil [Brasil] » São Paulo
1952
Brazil [Brasil] » Rio de Janeiro
1951
Brazil [Brasil] » Diamantina
1951
Brazil [Brasil] » Diamantina
1950
Brazil [Brasil] » São Paulo
1947
Brazil [Brasil] » São José dos Campos
1946
Brazil [Brasil] » Rio de Janeiro
1942 - 1943
Brazil [Brasil] » Belo Horizonte
1942 - 1943
Brazil [Brasil] » Belo Horizonte
1942 - 1943
Brazil [Brasil] » Belo Horizonte
1942 - 1943
Brazil [Brasil] » Belo Horizonte
1942 - 1943
Brazil [Brasil] » Belo Horizonte
1942 - 1943
Brazil [Brasil] » Belo Horizonte
1936 - 1943
Brazil [Brasil] » Rio de Janeiro
1942
Brazil [Brasil] » Ouro Preto
1939 - 1939
United States » New York - Queens
1937
Brazil [Brasil] » Rio de Janeiro
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
 
WRITINGS
BY THE ARCHITECT
Oscar Niemeyer (ed.), Sem rodeios, Editora Revan, Rio de Janeiro 2006
Oscar Niemeyer, Minha Arquitetura 1937-2004/My Architecture 1937-2004, Editora Revan, Rio de Janeiro 2004
Oscar Niemeyer, The Curves of Time. The Memoirs of Oscar Niemeyer, Phaidon, London 2000
Oscar Niemeyer, Oscar Niemeyer. 1937-1997, Toto Shuppan, Tokyo 1997
Oscar Niemeyer, Oscar Niemeyer. 1937-1997, Toto Shuppan, Tokyo 1997
Oscar Niemeyer, Oscar Niemeyer, Mondadori, Milano 1975
Oscar Niemeyer, Oscar Niemeyer. Textes et dessins pour Brasilia, Forces Vives, Paris 1965
Oscar Niemeyer, Minha experiência em Brasília, Vitória, Rio de Janeiro 1961
Oscar Niemeyer, A forma na arquitetura, Avenir Editora, Rio de Janeiro 1958
tr.it: Alfonso Giancotti (ed.), La forma nell'architettura, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, Milano 1978
Oscar Niemeyer, Oscar Niemeyer, Reinhold publishing corporation, New York 1956
WRITINGS
ABOUT THE ARCHITECT
David Chambers, Kevin Haley, Fernanda Balata, Wherever You Find People. The Radical Schools of Oscar Niemeyer, Darcy Ribeiro and Leonel BrizWherever You Find People, The Radical Schools of Oscar Niemeyer, Darcy Ribeiro and Leonel Brizolaola, Park Books, "Aberrant Architecture", Zurich 2016
Guido Laganà, Marcus Lontra (ed.), Niemeyer 100, Electa Mondadori, Milano 2008
Silvia Monaco (ed.), "Buon compleanno Oscar/Happy Birthday Oscar", Domus 909, dicembre/december 2007, "Streams" p. 2
Roberto Segre, "Cien años de soledad. Óscar Niemeyer: ¿mito o realidad?", Arquitectura Viva 111, noviembre-diciembre/november-december 2007, "Argumentos y reseñas. Arte/Cultura" pp. 94-97
Silvia Infusino, "Una carriera infinita", Il giornale dell'architettura 49, marzo 2007, p. 7
Casabella 753, marzo/march 2007 [Brasilia. 50 anni di una capitale. Oscar Niemeyer. 100 anni di un architetto], pp. 3-75
Francesco Dal Co, "Il secolo delle capitali: cinquanta anni dopo il piano di Brasili, a cento anni dalla nascita di Niemeyer. «Non tantum corpori sed etiam moribus salubrem locum eliger debemus»", Casabella 753, marzo/march 2007 [Brasilia. 50 anni di una capitale. Oscar Niemeyer. 100 anni di un architetto], "Editoriale" p. 3
Mercedes Daguerre, "Oscar Niemeyer. Una vita lunga un secolo", Casabella 753, marzo/march 2007 [Brasilia. 50 anni di una capitale. Oscar Niemeyer. 100 anni di un architetto], "Oscar Niemeyer" pp. 30-31

"Dieci anni fa in occasione del novantesimo compleanno di Oscar Niemeyer", Casabella 753, marzo/march 2007 [Brasilia. 50 anni di una capitale. Oscar Niemeyer. 100 anni di un architetto], "Oscar Niemeyer" pp. 32-33
"Pier Luigi Nervi sull'opera di Oscar Niemeyer", Casabella 753, marzo/march 2007 [Brasilia. 50 anni di una capitale. Oscar Niemeyer. 100 anni di un architetto], "Oscar Niemeyer" pp. 48-49
AV Monografias/Monographs 125, 2007 [Oscar Niemeyer. One Hundred Years]
Roberto Segre, Oscar Niemeyer. 100 years 100 works, Instituto Tomie Ohtake, 2007
review: Lorenzo Covadonga, "Oscar Niemeyer por partida doble", Arquitectura Viva 116, septiembre-octubre/september-october 2007 [Ladrillo visto], "Arte/Cultura" p. 83
Oscar Niemeyer HousesAlan Hess. Alan Weintraub (photo), Oscar Niemeyer Houses, Rizzoli International, New York 2006
David Underwood, Oscar Niemeyer e o modernismo de formas livres no Brasil, Cosac & Naify, São Paulo 2003
Paul Andreas, Ingeborg Flage (ed.), Oscar Niemeyer. Eine Legende der Moderne/A Legend of Modernism, Birkhäuser, Frankfurt a. M./Basel/Boston/Berlin 2003
Matthieu Salvaing, Oscar Niemeyer, Assouline, 2002
Eduardo Corona, Oscar Niemeyer. Uma lição de arquitetura, Fupam, São Paulo 2001
Miguel Pereira, Arquitetura. Texto e contexto: o discurso de Oscar Niemeyer, EDUnB, Brasília 1997
Oscar Niemeyer, Oscar Niemeyer. 1937-1997, Toto Shuppan, Tokyo 1997
Josep Maria Botey, Oscar Niemeyer. Obras y proyectos/Works and Projects, Gustavo Gili, Barcelona 1996
Jean Petit, Niemeyer. Poète d'architecture, Hoepli, 1995
David Kendrick Underwood, Oscar Niemeyer e o modernismo de formas livres no Brasil, George Braziller, New York 1994
tr. en.: Oscar Niemeyer and Brazilian Free-form Modernism, George Braziller, New York 1994
David Kendrick Underwood, Oscar Niemeyer and the Architecture of Brazil, Rizzoli, New York 1994
Lionello Puppi, Guida a Niemeyer, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, 1987
Alexander Fils, Oscar Niemeyer. Selbstdarstellung Kritiken Oeuvre, Frölich & Kaufmann, Berlin 1982
Hélio Penteado (ed.), Oscar Niemeyer, Almed, São Paulo 1985
Stamo Papadaki, The work of Oscar Niemeyer, Rheinhold, New York 1981
Oscar Niemeyer Architetto, Istituto di Cultura di Palazzo Grassi, Venezia 1980
Oscar Niemeyer, Oscar Niemeyer, Mondadori, Milano 1975
L'architecture d'aujourd'hui 171 janvier-fevrier/january-february 1974 [Oscar Niemeyer]
Stamo Papadaki, Oscar Niemeyer, George Braziller, New York 1960

tr. it: Il saggiatore, 1961
Pier Luigi Nervi, "Critica delle strutture", Casabella Continuità 223, gennaio/january 1959, pp. 54-56
Oscar Niemeyer, Oscar Niemeyer, Reinhold publishing corporation, New York 1956
Stamo Papadaki, Oscar Niemeyer. Works in Progress, Reinhold, New York 1956
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THE ARCHITECT IN CINEMA
 
Title
  Oscar Niemeyer. A vida é um sopro
Directed by
Fabiano Maciel
Nationality
Brasil
Year of production
2010
Cast
Oscar Niemeyer, Eduardo Galeano, Chico Buarque de Hollanda, José Saramago
Architect's role
Protagonist
Oscar Niemeyer, A vida é um sopro, Fabiano Maciel
Title
  Oscar Niemeyer. Un architecte engagé dans le siècle [Oscar Niemeyer. An architect committed to his century]
Directed by
Marc-Henri Wajnberg
Nationality
Belgium
Year of production
2001
Cast
Oscar Niemeyer, Ferreira Gullar, Chico Buarque, Gilberto Gil, Fidel Castro, Haron Cohen, Maria Alice Rezende, Cecilia Scharlach
Architect's role
Protagonist

Documentary
60 min.



Oscar Niemeyer, Un architecte engagé dans le siècleFirst prize at the International Film Festival of Architecture « Archfilm 2004 »
Bratislava, Slovakia – 2004

Price of the public at the Kiev Festival
Ukraine - 2004

Best Documentary at the Thunderbird International Film Festival
U.S.A. – April 2002

Best Documentary Photography at Thunderbird International Film Festival

U.S.A. – April 2002

Los Charales Award at the Ajijic Festival International de Cine

Cine, Mexico – 2001

Best Documentary at the Changing Images International Film Festival
Sydney, Australia – 2001

Silver Screen at the U.S. International Film and Video Festival

Elmhurst, Illinois, U.S.A. - May 2001

Grand Prix FIFA au Festival International du Film sur l’Art
Montréal (Québec), Canada – March 2001

Médaille de Bronze au Festival de Monte Carlo

Monte-Carlo, France – February 2001

Grand Prix MIPA at the Muestra Internacional de Patrimonio Arquitectonico
Madrid, Spain – November 2000

Grand Prix Documentary at the Muestra Internacional de Patrimonio Arquitectonico
Madrid, Spain – November 2000

Premier Prix au Festival du Documentaire de Création Européen

Strasbourg, France – November 2000

Prix du Public au Festival du Documentaire de Création Européen
Strasbourg, France – November 2000
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INTERVIEWS
 
 
"Extraits de l'interview accordee par Oscar Niemeyer aux Journaux bresiliens (octobre 1973)/A selection of extracts from interviews with Oscar Niemeyer recently published in Brazil", L'architecture d'aujourd'hui 171 janvier-fevrier/january-february 1974 [Oscar Niemeyer], pp. 3-4, LXXXI-LXXXII
"Extrait d'une conversation entre Marc Emery et Oscar Niemeyer (janvier 1974)/Extract from a recent interview with Oscar Niemeyer by Marc Emery in Paris", L'architecture d'aujourd'hui 171 janvier-fevrier/january-february 1974 [Oscar Niemeyer], pp. 5, LXXXIII

"Extrait du discors prononcé en 1962 à l'occasion de la remise du prix Lénine à Oscar Niemeyer", L'architecture d'aujourd'hui 171 janvier-fevrier/january-february 1974 [Oscar Niemeyer], pp. 5, LXXXIII
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EXHIBITIONS
 
 
Oscar Niemeyer. Memoriali
Roma, Galleria Candido Portinari, Palazzo Pamphilj, Ambasciata del Brasile, 6 december 2017 / 6 january 2018
Roma, Casa dell'Architettura, 22 january / 2 february 2018
Yuko Hasegawa, Kazuyo Sejima, Ryue Nishizawa, (ed.), Oscar Niemeyer. The Man Who Built Brasilia, Tokyo, MOT Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, 18 july / 12 octobre 2015
Oscar Niemeyer. Un secolo di curve eleganti, Ravello (Italy), Auditorium Oscar Niemeyer, 29 june / 31 october 2013
Oscar Niemeyer. Un progetto per Padova, Padova, Centro Culturale Altinate/San Gaetano, 26 march/25 april 2010
Oscar Niemeyer. Architetture Italiane, Ravello (SA), Villa Rufolo, 29 january/28 february 2010
Oscar Niemeyer, Madrid, Fundación Telefónica, 17 september/22 november 2009
101% Oscar Niemeyer. L’arte di progettare. L'architettura dello spettacolo. Lo spettacolo dell'architettura

Vicenza, Chiostri di Santa Corona, 8 may/7 june 2009

Benevento, Palazzo Paolo V, 2/22 september 2009
Exposição Arquitetura e Liberdade, Napoli, Mostra d’Oltremare, Padiglione America Latina, 4/14 december 2008
Oscar Niemeyer, cento anni, Torino, I Bastioni delle Porte Palatine, 26 june/30 september 2008
Oscar Niemeyer. La Poética de la Forma, Santiago de Chile, Museo nacional de Bellas Artes/Espacio Arte Abierto de Fundación Itaú, 20 june/17 august 2008
Oscar Niemeyer, un secolo verso la libertà, Assago (Milano), 18 june/18 august 2008
Oscar Niemeyer. Poetry of Form, Moskva, Shchusev State Architecture Museum, 18 december 2007/30 january 2008
Salvino Campos (photo), Patrizia Di Maggio, Aldo Loris Rossi (ed.), Oscar Niemeyer. Architettura, Città e Paesaggio
Napoli, Palazzo Reale, Biblioteca Nazionale, 15 december 2007/15 january 2008
Roma, Ambasciata del Brasile, 8 april/2 may 2008
Vicenza, Stamperia Busato, 12 october/9 november 2008
Oscar Niemeyer, Zürich, ETH, Architekturfoyer, 8 november 2007/17 january 2008
 
 
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