Oscar Niemeyer Architect Who Gave Brasília Its Flair Dies at 104 – Video

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Oscar Niemeyer Architect Who Gave Braslia Its Flair Dies at 104
Oscar Niemeyer the celebrated Brazilian architect whose flowing designs infused Modernism with a new sensuality and captured the imaginations of generations of architects around the world died on Wednesday in Rio de Janeiro. He was 104.The medical staff at the Hospital Samaritano in Rio where he was being treated said on national television that he died of a respiratory infection. Mr. Niemeyer was among the last of a long line of Modernist true believers who stretch from Le Corbusier and Mies van der Rohe to the architects who defined the postwar architecture of the late 1940s 50s and 60s. He is best known for designing the government buildings of Braslia a sprawling new capital carved out of the Brazilian savanna that became an emblem both of Latin Americas leap into modernity and later of the limits of Modernisms utopian aspirations.From:Mary ClintoViews:0 0ratingsTime:01:09More inPeople Blogs

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