Oscar Niemeyer Buildings

Oscar Niemeyer is one of the greatest architects of our time. Hugely influential, his work has added a new dimension to modern architecture in the twentieth century. The designer of Brasilia showed that the rhythmic, sensuous lines of Brazilian Modernism were as legitimately modern as the rectilinear lines of the Bauhaus. A comprehensive work, Oscar Niemeyer Buildings will include the architects most seminal work, including, among others: Ministry of Education and Health, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Brasilia; New Pampulha Yacht Club, Belo Horizonte, Brazil; Communist Party Headquarters, Paris; Mondadori Headquarters, Milan; University of Constantine, Algeria; Le Havre Central Cultural Center, France; Worker's Union Building, France; Niteroi Museum of Contemporary Art, Brazil; and the Oscar Niemeyer Museum. This book, a companion to Rizzoli's recently published Oscar Niemeyer Houses, presents a timely re-evaluation of the great buildings for which Niemeyer, now coming toward the end of his career, is widely famed. Never before has the work of this Modern master, one of the world's most fiercely original architects, been so luxuriously and, at the same time, comprehensively treated. An essential, gloriously photographed work on the last living Modern master, Oscar Niemeyer, and the buildings he considers his most important work.