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Oscar Niemeyer Soares

Niemeyer, Oscar

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Niemeyer, Oscar (1907– ) Brazilian architect. An early advocate of modern architecture, he worked with Le Corbusier on the Ministry of Education and Health Building in Rio (1936–45). He subsequently developed an original approach: elegant, sub-tropical luxury expressed through curving, sculptural forms. In the late 1950s Niemeyer began designing the main public buildings at Brasília.
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