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!