Church of St. Francis of Assisi in Pampulha The little ... Don’t believe it when you read that Oscar Niemeyer, the Brazilian architect who died this week only days before he would have turned ...

Oscar Niemeyer, widely regarded as the foremost Latin American architect of the last century, brought a daring and dramatic approach to public-works design through his glass cathedrals ...

WHEN Oscar Niemeyer was a tiny child ... appears to dance on points beside an ornamental lake; the church of St Francis of Assisi at Pampulha in Belo Horizonte, where he did his first work ...

In the course of his celebrated career, Oscar Niemeyer left his mark on works spread across Brazilian cities. Among houses, memorials, and churches, some are still under construction ten years ...