What attracts me it the free and sensual curve." This philosophy was brought to life in concrete by Oscar Niemeyer for more than seven decades. In the landscapes of Rio, the architect drew his ...

Oscar Niemeyer’s futuristic, modernist buildings were considered so out of this world that even space travelers were impressed. Yuri Gagarin, the Russian cosmonaut and first man in space ...

In the 1980s, as Brazil restored its democratic regime, Oscar Niemeyer returned from exile. Confronted with a country where the population had spread to the outskirts of cities, Niemeyer continued ...

Against a colonial past dominated politically by large agricultural producers and sustained by enslaved labor, the early 20th century in Brazil was marked by a certain uncertainty in the political ...

As with Pierre Jeanneret and his vision for Chandigarh in India, Oscar Niemeyer (1907-2012) is famous for his involvement in ...

Image by Wilfredo Rafael Rodriguez Hernandez, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. In 1900, Paris hosted its first Olympic games. It had been the second city to host them after the first Olympics in Athens ...