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 ...

This philosophy was brought to life in concrete by Oscar Niemeyer for ... In 1943, in Belo Horizonte, Niemeyer designed his ...

The mesmerising curves of the Church of Saint Francis of Assisi in Pampulha are a Niemeyer hallmark. Its completion in 1943 was accompanied by an interior mural by Candido Portinari, while the site ...

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 ...