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Oscar Niemeyer houses / text by Alan Hess ; photographs by Alan Weintraub.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Rizzoli, 2006Description: 231 pages : colour illustrations ; 29 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0847827984
  • 9780847827985
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 720.92 22
LOC classification:
  • NA859.N5 H47 2006
Online resources:
Contents:
The Houses of Oscar Niemeyer: Houses 1936-1953 -- Houses 1953-1961 -- Houses, 1961-2005 -- Selected houses 1940-2005: Sr. Cavalcanti House 1940 -- Oscar Niemeyer House at Lagoa 1942 -- Francisco Inácio Peixoto House 1942 -- Mrs. Prudente de Morais Neto House 1943/1949 -- Juscelino Kubitschek House 1943 -- Leonel Mirando House 1952/1955 -- Francisco Pignatari House 1953 -- Oscar Niemayer House at Canoas 1953 -- Alberto Dalva Simão House 1954 -- Edmundo Cavanelas House 1954 -- Catetinho 1956 -- Oscar Niemeyer House at Brasilia 1960 -- Anne and Joseph Strick House 1964 -- Nara Mondadori House 1968 -- Carmen Baldo House 1969 -- Glavio Marcilio House 1973 -- Carlos Miranda House 1983 -- Darcy Ribeiró House 1983 -- Sebastião Camargo House 1985 -- Marco Antonio Amaral Rezende House 1985 -- Orestes Quércia House 1990 -- Ana Elisa Niemeyer House 2005.
Summary: "Oscar Niemeyer is one of the greatest architects of our time. Hugely influential, his work has added a new dimension to modern architecture in the twentieth century. The designer of Brasilia showed that the rhythmic, sensuous lines of Brazilian Modernism were as legitimately modern as the rectilinear lines of the Bauhaus. Oscar Niemeyer Houses showcases the houses built by this seminal modern master in a lavish format that finally does justice to his extraordinary work. Viewed as a collection, these houses serve to demonstrate the wide range of Niemeyer's prodigious genius. The designs show a personal and eclectic facet to Niemeyer's creative imagination, a side of the master little known and under-appreciated. Often built for family members or major clients, they show a wealth of solutions that respond to a wide range of sites: the steep hillsides of Rio, the Atlantic beach shore, the rain forest, and the residential neighborhoods of Rio and Sao Paulo. This celebrated work stands as an enduring and notable tribute to one of the last of the international masters of Modernism."--Publisher description.
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Includes bibliographical references (page 230) and index.

The Houses of Oscar Niemeyer: Houses 1936-1953 -- Houses 1953-1961 -- Houses, 1961-2005 -- Selected houses 1940-2005: Sr. Cavalcanti House 1940 -- Oscar Niemeyer House at Lagoa 1942 -- Francisco Inácio Peixoto House 1942 -- Mrs. Prudente de Morais Neto House 1943/1949 -- Juscelino Kubitschek House 1943 -- Leonel Mirando House 1952/1955 -- Francisco Pignatari House 1953 -- Oscar Niemayer House at Canoas 1953 -- Alberto Dalva Simão House 1954 -- Edmundo Cavanelas House 1954 -- Catetinho 1956 -- Oscar Niemeyer House at Brasilia 1960 -- Anne and Joseph Strick House 1964 -- Nara Mondadori House 1968 -- Carmen Baldo House 1969 -- Glavio Marcilio House 1973 -- Carlos Miranda House 1983 -- Darcy Ribeiró House 1983 -- Sebastião Camargo House 1985 -- Marco Antonio Amaral Rezende House 1985 -- Orestes Quércia House 1990 -- Ana Elisa Niemeyer House 2005.

"Oscar Niemeyer is one of the greatest architects of our time. Hugely influential, his work has added a new dimension to modern architecture in the twentieth century. The designer of Brasilia showed that the rhythmic, sensuous lines of Brazilian Modernism were as legitimately modern as the rectilinear lines of the Bauhaus. Oscar Niemeyer Houses showcases the houses built by this seminal modern master in a lavish format that finally does justice to his extraordinary work. Viewed as a collection, these houses serve to demonstrate the wide range of Niemeyer's prodigious genius. The designs show a personal and eclectic facet to Niemeyer's creative imagination, a side of the master little known and under-appreciated. Often built for family members or major clients, they show a wealth of solutions that respond to a wide range of sites: the steep hillsides of Rio, the Atlantic beach shore, the rain forest, and the residential neighborhoods of Rio and Sao Paulo. This celebrated work stands as an enduring and notable tribute to one of the last of the international masters of Modernism."--Publisher description.

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