Brazilian - Architect | December 15, 1907 - December 5, 2012
Curves are the essence of my work because they are the essence of Brazil, pure and simple.
Oscar Niemeyer
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Right angles don't attract me. Nor straight, hard and inflexible lines created by man.
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I like talking to priests, to Catholics. Everyone has their beliefs.
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It is not with architecture that one can disseminate any political ideology.
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I pick up my pen. It flows. A building appears. There it is. There is nothing more to say.
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Architecture will always express the technical and social progress of the country in which it is carried out. If we wish to give it the human content that it lacks, we must participate in the political struggle.
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Of course, I have given my engineers some headaches over the years, but they go with me. I have always wanted my buildings to be as light as possible, to touch the ground gently, to swoop and soar, and to surprise.
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When students leave college, they are like children who know nothing about the problems of life, and don't have a political stance.
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Humanity needs dreams to be able to survive the miseries of daily existence, even if only for an instant.
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I am a Brazilian before I am an architect. I cannot separate the two.
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Sometimes I lose a whole morning waiting on journalists and other people who look for me. But I always find some time for reading, talking to my friends and feeling what is happening in this world.
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I enter my studio at 9 a.m. I have lunch here, I return right away to my work and I go out to dinner at 8 p.m. My daily tasks vary very much.
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