Misplaced Architecture No13

Brazilian Coffee

On December 5th 2012, ten days before his 105th birthday, the great Brazilian architect, Oscar Niemeyer, died in Rio de Janeiro.   Along with Le Corbusier, Oscar Niemeyer was an Icon for student architects like me who trained during the 1960s.

"I am not attracted to straight angles or to the straight line, hard and inflexible, created by man. I am attracted to free-flowing, sensual curves. The curves that I find in the mountains of my country, in the sinuousness of its rivers, in the waves of the ocean, and on the body of the beloved woman. Curves make up the entire Universe, the curved Universe of Einstein". Oscar Niemeyer, Bohemian, Artist, Architect and Socialist. 

Sounds like a great bloke to me!  

I hope you excuse my bit of fun with your work Mr N.

For more information see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Niemeyer