Oscar Niemeyer
1907 - 2012
Nationality
Brazil
Brazil
Work
StartEndBuildingLocationCountry
Number of published projects in the database: 5
Notes
Even before graduating, Niemeyer started working with the Modernist architect Lúcio Costa, and they collaborated on numerous projects between the years 1936 and 1943.
He first collaborated with Le Corbusier on the design of the Ministry of Education and Health building in Brazil –also with Costa.
Niemeyer started his own design projects as of 1941 with the Pampulha Architectural Complexin Belo Horizonte. There, his signature architecture of heavy concrete and curves inspired from the female body starts becoming evident.
In the early sixties, Niemeyer was commissioned by the Lebanese government to build a fair in Tripoli. The fair still remains, though never finished, as a legacy of the architect’s fascinating concrete work, reminiscent of his previous projects in Brazil.
As for the Tripoli Fair in Lebanon, huge horizontal monolith designs were used by Niemeyer in his proposal for the University of Haifa and in his design for the Constantine University classrooms block in Algeria. Also in Algeria, Niemeyer designed the Constantine University Auditorium that boasts spectacular curved forms and the Olympic City of July 5 that carries on a persistent theme in Niemeyer’s work, the dome structure. In the latter project, the structure’s contextualization bears a certain similarity to the dome of the Algiers Mosque.
He first collaborated with Le Corbusier on the design of the Ministry of Education and Health building in Brazil –also with Costa.
Niemeyer started his own design projects as of 1941 with the Pampulha Architectural Complexin Belo Horizonte. There, his signature architecture of heavy concrete and curves inspired from the female body starts becoming evident.
In the early sixties, Niemeyer was commissioned by the Lebanese government to build a fair in Tripoli. The fair still remains, though never finished, as a legacy of the architect’s fascinating concrete work, reminiscent of his previous projects in Brazil.
As for the Tripoli Fair in Lebanon, huge horizontal monolith designs were used by Niemeyer in his proposal for the University of Haifa and in his design for the Constantine University classrooms block in Algeria. Also in Algeria, Niemeyer designed the Constantine University Auditorium that boasts spectacular curved forms and the Olympic City of July 5 that carries on a persistent theme in Niemeyer’s work, the dome structure. In the latter project, the structure’s contextualization bears a certain similarity to the dome of the Algiers Mosque.
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