His bold, sculptural designs led some to dismiss him as a “monumental sculptor.” But at a time when internationalist ...

Oscar Niemeyer was sure to make a statement with the powerful expression and unique form of the Cathedral of Brasilia, which led to his acceptance of the Pritzker Prize in 1988. The cornerstone ...

This series of images captures Oscar Niemeyer’s Cathedral of Brasília through the lens of Argentine architect and photographer Gonzalo Viramonte. A graduate of Argentina’s National University ...

Oscar Niemeyer, widely regarded as the foremost ... later with Mr. Niemeyer’s design in Brasilia for a glass-walled cathedral covered with thornlike spikes. Many saw a resemblance to an upside ...

This philosophy was brought to life in concrete by Oscar Niemeyer for more ... Brasilia. Its cathedral, inaugurated in 1970, ...

Oscar Niemeyer and landscape architect Roberto Burle Marx worked ... two elements add drama and monumentality to this modernist design. The Roman Catholic cathedral of Brazil's newly – at the time – ...

Oscar Niemeyer, the Pritzker Prize-winning architect, was known for some of the world's most famous modernist buildings, including the crown-shaped cathedral in Brazil's capital Brasilia.

Architect Oscar Niemeyer, who designed Brazil's capital ... "In works from Brasilia's crown-shaped cathedral to the undulating French Communist Party building in Paris, Niemeyer shunned the ...

The Cathedral of Brasília, designed by famed Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer, is among the most iconic elements of the capital’s cityscape — a space where modernist design meets sacred symbolism.

Oscar Niemeyer Soares Filho was born on Dec. 15 ... His cone-shaped Metropolitan Cathedral is a circle of curved concrete pillars set like tepee poles with glass mosaic in between.