Tema: Oscar Niemeyer

Oscar Niemeyer



Arquitecto brasileño. Nació en Río de Janeiro y después de graduarse por la universidad de Brasil en 1935, Niemeyer trabajó con Le Corbusier en los innovadores planos para el ministerio de Educación y Salud de Río de Janeiro (1936). En 1939 realizó el Pabellón brasileño para la feria mundial de Nueva York y en 1943 la residencia Peixoto. A finales de esta década se le encargó realizar en el suburbio de Belo Horizonte el teatro municipal (1946) y el edificio del gobernador. Otro de sus trabajos es la polémica iglesia de San Francisco, tan radical en su estructura que su consagración se pospuso 16 años después de su finalización en 1959. Su reputación internacional le viene de su audacia e imaginación. Su obra tiene un carácter ambiental de gran fuerza, ya que Niemeyer busca adaptar los edificios a las condiciones del medio ambiente, al hacer convivir grandes volúmenes con espacios vacíos de manera inusual. Otra característica de sus edificios es que se elevan sobre pilotes de acero y hormigón. En la década de 1950 fue el arquitecto organizador de los edificios oficiales de la ciudad de Brasilia. A partir de 1960 ha trabajado indistintamente en su país y en el extranjero, realizando diversos conjuntos arquitectónicos en Alemania, Gran Bretaña, Italia, Argelia o Francia, entre otros países. © eMe

Galardones:
Pritzker (1988), Príncipe de Asturias (1989), Praemium Imperiale (2004)

Web oficial:
www.niemeyer.org.br

Estudio:
Oscar Niemeyer
Avenida Atlantica 3940
CEP 22070-002 Rio de Janeiro - Brasil
tel 55 21 523 4890 - fax 55 21 267 6388



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De The Financial Times:

Happy century, dear Oscar
By Edwin Heathcote

The man of whom Fidel Castro once said: "Oscar Niemeyer and I are the last Communists on this planet" celebrates his 100th birthday today.

Niemeyer, the charismatic architect of Brasilia, is a great survivor, perhaps the greatest architect alive. When I visited his Rio studio overlooking the beach, he told me that he has lasted so well because "other architects look to the right angle and the straight line, I always design with the mountains of Rio in my eyes. Mine is an architecture of curves, the body of a woman, the sinuous rivers, the waves of the sea." As he spoke, he sketched.

I expected to see an exotic building emerge from the lines; instead I got the flowing outline of a reclining nude.

He is keenly aware of his stature and has long lived his own legend. He speaks in strangely familiar quotes that you know have done the rounds, yet are delivered with charisma and charm. The wizened old man, sucking on a big cigar probably sent to him by his friend Fidel Castro, was one of the first superstar architects, a precedent for the jet-setting starchitects of today.

Niemeyer, who was born in Rio de Janeiro on December 15, 1907, was already an established and respected architect at the moment when Brazil's President Juscelino Kubitschek was searching for a new definition of the country, a new capital to supplant the colonial cities and a new image for the nation. It was also a time when Brazilian architects latched on to the modernism of Europe and ran with it, often surpassing it.

From his Brazilian Pavilion at New York's 1939 World's Fair and the undulating reinforced concrete roof of his church in Pampulha to his collaboration with Le Corbusier on the United Nations Building in New York, Niemeyer had pioneered a modernism less obsessed with functionalism than its European counterpart. His was an architecture more concerned with expressive form, fluidity and structural acrobatics than with asceticism and restraint.

It was also lyrical and beautiful, uplifting in a way in which Bauhaus buildings with their clinical efficiency and cold beauty rarely were. His biggest moment, however, came with his friendship with Kubitschek, who commissioned him in the 1950s to create the city's official architecture. His gorgeous government buildings and the crowning cathedral set a joyous precedent for a city.

He suffered a painful period beginning only a year after the inauguration of Brasilia in 1960 when the military staged a coup leaving the dedicated communist architect a marginal figure. In 1965, he moved to Paris, where he designed international projects from Madeira to Malaysia, although his best-known building from this period remains the superb HQ for the French Communist Party centred on its sparkling domed hall.

The fall of the dictatorship in the 1980s saw a return to his beloved Rio, and instead of sinking into a deserved retirement he embarked on a wave of ambitious and radical buildings.

Among these is the extraordinary art gallery at Niteroi, near Rio. It is one of the most dysfunctional gallery buildings I have ever seen. A flying saucer volume gives curving walls and a continuous strip window against which hanging is impossible and lighting dreadful. Yet it is also one of the most beautiful and genuinely affecting structures I have experienced, almost viscerally moving, sitting lightly upon and working together with the seductively beautiful coast. In 2003, he built a striking and hugely successful pavilion for the Serpentine Gallery in London. Last year saw the opening of two more Niemeyer structures in Brasilia, the National Museum and Library and, at the age of 98, he also got married again (his bride was 90).

Niemeyer's architecture has passed in and out of fashion but has proved hugely influential. Contemporary architects from Zaha Hadid to Rem Koolhaas have been inspired and encouraged by his daring and his quest for an extravagant but humane beauty.

"Architecture," Niemeyer told me in his beautiful 1930s studio overlooking the beach at Ipanema, "is not really important. Life is what is important. And it goes by so fast."

Not that fast, Oscar. Happy Birthday.







BRASILIA

National Congress:




Cathedral of Brasilia:




JK's museum:




National Museum:




Palace of the President of the republic:





SÃO PAULO

Copan Building:



Oca and theater at the Ibirapuera park:




Theater:








Memorial Latin America:







Curitiba - Brazil

Oscar Niemeyer Museum:








MAC Niterói

Para mi el palacio presidencial, el congreso y el MAC de Niteroir son lo mejor.

Demasiado sesentero para mi gusto jajaja, pero en la época seguro que fue revolucionario

Empezado por HiRyu

Demasiado sesentero para mi gusto jajaja, pero en la época seguro que fue revolucionario

Empezado por Lau

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En la década de 1950 fue el arquitecto organizador de los edificios oficiales de la ciudad de Brasilia. A partir de 1960 ha trabajado indistintamente en su país y en el extranjero, realizando diversos conjuntos arquitectónicos en Alemania, Gran Bretaña, Italia, Argelia o Francia, entre otros países. © eMe

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Entre todo lo que ha puesto Lau, y esto de la Wiki sobre Brasilia y que se inaguro en 1960, jeje, pues esta claro que los edificios tenian que ser sesenteros, si estaban en los sesenta, jeje

Cuanto más veo las fotos de Brasilia más ganas tengo de ir a verlo todo, me encanta

Y el MAC Nitéroi es bestial. Y lo conocí por este disco:

No hay nota para uno de los Dioses del Siglo XX.

Despues de ver a este genio, que venga calatrava o zaha hadid y diga que innova... Esto si que es arquitectura y escultura unidas...que simpleza de formas, que cotinuidad.... Me encanta!

Son unos diseños futuristas, según la visión que se tenía en la época de como serían las ciudades del futuro: diáfanas, blancas, pulcras...

Cualquier novela de ciencia ficción de algún genio de la época se podría ambientar en estos paisajes.

Increíble. Un genio.

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Pues si veis el truño que le ha colocado a la Fundacion Principe de Asturias...