Famous architect Oscar Niemeyer

Hello!                                                                                                            Today in my post I going to talk about Oscar Niemeyer (15 December 1907-5 December 2012) a famous architect I have admired.                                                                                                He was born  in Brazil. In 1934 he graduated from the National School of Fine Arts in Rio de Janeiro, he later worked with Lucio Costa a famous architect.                                                                               They made the works of the Ministry of Education of Rio (1936) with Le Corbusier. In 1939 they built the Brazilian pavilion for the New York World's Fair.

The mayor of Belo Horizonte commissioned him to build some buildings in the city (1941).  He integrated the painting and sculture with architecture in this proyect. 

In the 1950s, Brazil's President Juscelino Kubitschek appointed him advisor to Nova Cap, the organization responsible for founding the country's new capital, Brasilia. 

He has won numerous awards including the Lenin Peace Prize (1963), the Pritzker Prize (1988) and the Prince of Asturias Prize for the Arts (1989).

I like his proyects because he use power colors and a modern shapes in his proyects , for example in the Museum of Contemporary Art of Niterói he use the  red color for the access ramp that makes your project stand out in the context.                                                                                 bye!

My fauvorite subject

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In this post I am going to talk about my favorite subject in this semester of the university, Culture of classical architecture

This asignature is based about the periods about the classic architecture and I have learned many periods starting with the Greek period,  the Roman period, the Paleochristian architecture who is a period and a specific stile, and now I learn about the Renaissance. My section also learned about the Gotic architecture but this is and exception of this course because the Gotic stile is not a classic but this happened in the middle of the classical era.

Because it is necessary to know the gotic architecture for the career, the professor Patricio Duarte decided to teach us this subject as well.

I like very much this course because I love the classic architecture. I think about that period when people did not have the materials and machinery we have now to build they made a lot of huge buildings that this today are still some standing and this is amagazing!.

Currently most things are made by machines, in that time from a block of marble  were made columns

You imagine yourself building palace or a church with huge block of marble? 

I hope your answer, see you!