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Product Identifiers
PublisherRizzoli International Publications, Incorporated
ISBN-100847831906
ISBN-139780847831906
eBay Product ID (ePID)70397812
Product Key Features
Book TitleOscar Niemeyer Buildings
Number of Pages368 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2009
TopicIndividual Architects & Firms / General, Artists, Architects, Photographers, Regional
IllustratorYes
GenreArchitecture, Biography & Autobiography
AuthorAlan Hess
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.5 in
Item Weight95.2 Oz
Item Length11.3 in
Item Width11.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2008-937200
Dewey Edition22
Photographed byWeintraub, Alan
Dewey Decimal720.92
SynopsisAt age 100, Oscar Niemeyer is universally acknowledged as a master of form, color, and light--the last living Modern master. Niemeyer is known primarily for his large-scale institutional and civic designs throughout Brazil and Europe--daringly conceptual works that challenged twentieth-century orthodoxy about Modernism, materials, and structure. This comprehensive book, a companion to Rizzoli's Oscar Niemeyer Houses, presents a reevaluation of his greatest buildings, in all new color photography specially commissioned for this book. Featured are the architect's most seminal work, including: Ministry of Education and Health, Rio de Janeiro; Brasilia; New Pampulha Yacht Club, Belo Horizonte, Brazil; Mondadori Headquarters, Milan; Le Havre Central Cultural Center, France; Niteroi Museum of Contemporary Art, Brazil; and the Oscar Niemeyer Museum. A periodic resident of Rio de Janeiro, photographer Alan Weintraub has been granted unprecedented access to these remarkable structures--from Brazil to North Africa to Italy. As a result, Oscar Niemeyer Buildings reveals the master's brilliant artistry, and his eloquent, sinuous, utterly livable Modernism.
LC Classification NumberNA859.N5
Text byHess, Alan
